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Discontent
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“Marisa, that’s anxiety—you know that, right?” I shook my head. I didn’t know. I thought anxiety was a series of very specific symptoms (sweating, palpitations, a feeling of suffocation). Not bursting into tears when the alarm beeped and
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“She finally understood the paradoxical necessity of hiding so one would no longer have to hide.”
― Clam Down: A Metamorphosis
― Clam Down: A Metamorphosis
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.”
― When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
― When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I would rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.”
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Elisabeth’s 2025 Year in Books
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