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You carry on. That’s what he’d always done. That’s the task that comes with surviving, whether you deserve to live or not. You remember the dead as best you can. You say some words for them. Then you carry on, and you hope for better.
“I benefit from moving my body. Anything that I experience as stagnating feels counterproductive. That means that when I’m feeling challenged, I take a walk. I do the dishes. I get my body moving any way I can to discharge the physiological energy associated with my feelings. When I try to ease my feelings by relaxing—reading a book (my favorite hobby) or taking a bath—it actually puts me more on edge.”
― How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
― How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
“flesh-eaters”
― The Hunger Games
― The Hunger Games
“But the money ran out and we were slowly starving to death. There’s no other way to put it. I kept telling myself if I could only hold out until May, just May 8th, I would turn twelve and be able to sign up for the tesserae and get that precious grain and oil to feed us. Only there were still several weeks to go. We could well be dead by then.”
― The Hunger Games
― The Hunger Games
“So this is what luck looks like, is it? I’ve often wondered.”
― Last Argument of Kings
― Last Argument of Kings
“Not everyone is treated with such respect. But whenever my father sang, all the birds in the area would fall silent and listen. His voice was that beautiful, high and clear and so filled with life it made you want to laugh and cry at the same time.”
― The Hunger Games
― The Hunger Games
Matty Castro’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Matty Castro’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1 book
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5 friends
217 books
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141 friends
85 books
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13 friends
25 books
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48 friends
506 books
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1 friend
1 book
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53 friends
196 books
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151 friends
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