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“Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to.”
― Dolores Claiborne
― Dolores Claiborne
“We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
Jiao’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jiao’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,747 books
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140 friends
1,880 books
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254 friends
577 books
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51 friends
556 books
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30 friends
98 books
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119 friends
842 books
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215 friends
75 books
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20 friends
4,103 books
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283 friends
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