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“Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.”
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“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“be a person with knowledge not just opinions”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.”
― Mom & Me & Mom
― Mom & Me & Mom
Sharily’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sharily’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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62 friends
3,377 books
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1,535 friends
421 books
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126 friends
26 books
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1 friend
300 books
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11 friends
167 books
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60 friends
119 books
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33 friends
40 books
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9 friends
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