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“To cry or not to cry is sometimes a choice, and no telling which is the better. Not true—if you are alone, or with only one other, cry. To cry with more people present, concludes the International Study of Adult Crying, can lead to a worsening mood, though that may depend on others’ reactions. You can be made to feel ashamed. Most frequently criers report others responding with compassion, or what the study categorizes as “comfort words, comfort arms, and understanding.”2 If you are alone, comfort arms are still available; you hold yourself together.”
― The Crying Book
― The Crying Book
“When I am in the fog of despair I fear I cry too much to be a good partner or parent or person, that something within me is utterly broken, that any reprieve—a day of joy! a poem!—is temporary and somehow false. But that is the fog doing its work, making everything large and grotesque. When the fog lifts I can point up, say Look, it is a cloud.”
― The Crying Book
― The Crying Book
Jacob’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jacob’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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38 friends
142 books
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106 friends
470 books
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158 friends
647 books
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41 friends
160 books
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37 friends
100 books
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121 friends
133 books
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139 friends
445 books
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34 friends
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