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“And yet she can tell he is visited by fears so immense, so multiple, that she can almost feel the terror pulsing inside him. As though some beast breathes all the time at the windowpanes of his mind.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“words, you see," he said, looking at me again, "allow us to make permanent what is essentially transient.Turn a world filled with injustice and hurt into a place that is beautiful and lyrical.”
― In the Shadow of the Banyan
― In the Shadow of the Banyan
“Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
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Anisa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Anisa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Biography, Classics, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Mystery, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Suspense, and Thriller
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