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Jessica
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I am suddenly bone-weary, but it is the kind of head-buzzing exhaustion that tells me that if I go to bed I won’t sleep.
“I knew too well that deadness of heart; the sense of sleepwalking through days and lying open-eyed at night, finding no rest, knowing only emptiness that was not peace.”
― The Fiery Cross
― The Fiery Cross
“He loved his job. What was advertising, anyway, but a knowledge of people and of which buttons to push to nudge them into opening their wallets?
It was, he often thought, an accepted, creative, even expected twist on picking those wallets. For a man who had spent the first half of his life as a thief, it was the perfect career.”
― Rising Tides
It was, he often thought, an accepted, creative, even expected twist on picking those wallets. For a man who had spent the first half of his life as a thief, it was the perfect career.”
― Rising Tides
“As I drive home, I realise that every song on the radio is a love song. I am not in love with Danny, but I am sad because I am not in love with anyone.”
― Confessions of a Hostie: True Stories of an International Flight Attendant
― Confessions of a Hostie: True Stories of an International Flight Attendant
“She understands, too, the loneliness of parenting, which is the loneliness of memory—to know that she connects a future unknowable to her parents with a past unknowable to her child.”
― The Immortalists
― The Immortalists
“What do you read?” Ismay asks. “Little bit of everything. I started with crime novels. Pretty predictable that, I guess. But then A.J. got me into other kinds of books, too. Literary fiction, I think you’d call it. Some of it doesn’t have enough action for my taste. Kind of embarrassing, but I like young adult. Plenty of action there and feelings, too.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Jessica’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jessica’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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30 friends
855 books
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108 books
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707 books
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133 books
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397 books
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683 books
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74 books
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