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![Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde [and The Bottle Imp] by Robert Louis Stevenson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1525676646l/19308181._SY75_.jpg "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde [and The Bottle Imp] by Robert Louis Stevenson")
“I know life well enough to know you can’t count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to. You can’t stop people from dying. You can’t stop them from going away. You can’t stop yourself from going away either. I know myself well enough to know that no one else can keep you awake or keep you from sleeping.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“they were inventing their own type of relationship, one that wasn’t officially recognized by history or immortalized in poetry or song, but which felt truer and less constraining.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?”
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“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― My Dark Vanessa
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― My Dark Vanessa
Marina’s 2025 Year in Books
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908 books
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12 friends
485 books
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345 books
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108 books
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33 books
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116 books
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3 friends
783 books
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23 friends
23 books
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6 friends
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