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Most think it’s a nihilistic cry, a warning that nothing lasts. Not friendships, not loyalties, and certainly not empire. Which makes it consistent with your translation, Kitay, if you think about it. This world is ephemeral. Permanence is
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“We aren’t here to be sophisticated. We’re here to fuck people up.”
― The Poppy War
― The Poppy War
“She also depicted the cruel jokes of fate and chance unfolding in an amoral universe. It’s just that instead of doing it with men and guns, she chose to write about mad, lonely girls and big, sinister houses.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“If you live your life according to someone else’s rules, are you living then?”
― Infertat
― Infertat
“Around her the trees and wild flowers, with that oddly courteous air of natural things suddenly interrupted in their pressing occupations of growing and dying, turned toward her with attention, as though, dull and imperceptive as she was, it was still necessary for them to be gentle to a creation so unfortunate as not to be rooted in the ground, forced to go from one place to another, heart-breakingly mobile.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“When someone’s lying, what’s important is not the content of the lie, but the reasoning behind it,”
― Spice and Wolf, Vol. 1
― Spice and Wolf, Vol. 1
Kate’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kate’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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29 friends
387 books
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89 friends
446 books
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25 friends
19 books
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518 books
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29 friends
47 books
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61 friends
33 books
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16 friends
0 books
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42 friends
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