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“The opposite of sensitive is not brave. It's not brave to refuse to pay attention, to refuse to notice, to refuse to feel and know and imagine. The opposite of sensitive is insensitive, and that's no badge of honor.”
― Untamed
― Untamed
“The deepest pain I ever felt was denying my own feelings to make everyone else comfortable.”
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“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her,
you put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting Vanity,
thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had
depicted for your own pleasure.
The real function of the mirror was otherwise. It was to make
the woman connive in treating herself as, first and foremost, a
sight.”
― Ways of Seeing
you put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting Vanity,
thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had
depicted for your own pleasure.
The real function of the mirror was otherwise. It was to make
the woman connive in treating herself as, first and foremost, a
sight.”
― Ways of Seeing
“Like any unloved thing, I don’t know if I’m real
when I’m not being touched.”
― Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines
when I’m not being touched.”
― Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines
“Her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him.”
― A New Leaf
― A New Leaf
Alison’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alison’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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138 friends
236 books
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376 books
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92 books
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40 books
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942 books
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274 books
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70 friends
524 books
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65 friends
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