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“Somewhere deep in my twisted little brain is the desire to be so good at so many things that I earn the chance to be multiple people. It seems so unfair that we only get to read the choose-your-own adventure book of our lives once, that we can't pick a point and go, "Okay, this time flip to page 102 and do the rest another way.”
― I Miss You When I Blink: Essays
― I Miss You When I Blink: Essays
“It's about the important things, like the way their face lights up when they laugh, or the way they move as they're walking towards you, or the way their freckles create a map of the stars.”
― Holding Up the Universe
― Holding Up the Universe
“Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.”
― Leaves of Grass
― Leaves of Grass
“But he's no planet, just the final fading light of an already dead star.”
― The Sun Is Also a Star
― The Sun Is Also a Star
“We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. The lungs the brain the heart. Forty weeks later, six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our mother’s birth canal and we howl. Then the world starts in on us.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
Anna’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Anna’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
151 books
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145 friends
1,592 books
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73 friends
760 books
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670 friends
262 books
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227 friends
120 books
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182 friends
237 books
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131 friends
2 books
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336 friends
39 books
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229 friends
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