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BECOMING A PARENT, for those of us on the outside, can seem less like a transition and more like throwing yourself off a cliff.
“They don't hate you, my child. They hate what you were meant to become.”
― Children of Blood and Bone
― Children of Blood and Bone
“grief is the metabolization of change.”
― Inciting Joy: Essays
― Inciting Joy: Essays
“Someday we'll learn again how to train on this living place, and holding still will be like flying.”
― Bewilderment
― Bewilderment
“The best of us are cursed with caring, with a bungling and undying determination to protect whatever looks like beauty, even if our vision is blurry.”
― Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America
― Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America
“There are no heroes, Tian Haoli. Grand Secretary Shi was both courageous and cowardly, capable and foolish. Wang Xiuchu was both an opportunistic survivor and a man of greatness of spirit. I’m mostly selfish and vain, but sometimes even I surprise myself. We’re all just ordinary men—well, I’m an ordinary demon—faced with extraordinary choices. In those moments, sometimes heroic ideals demand that we become their avatars.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Ryan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ryan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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946 books
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464 books
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549 books
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727 books
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286 books
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990 books
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668 books
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