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“As wave is driven by wave
And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,
So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,
Always, for ever and new. What was before
Is left behind; what never was is now;
And every passing moment is renewed.”
― Metamorphoses
And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,
So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,
Always, for ever and new. What was before
Is left behind; what never was is now;
And every passing moment is renewed.”
― Metamorphoses
“When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. Warmish-cool, with a faint taste like the hot July wind in Cedar trees smells.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying
“I have been too unhappy, I thought, it cannot last, being so unhappy, it would kill you”
― Wide Sargasso Sea
― Wide Sargasso Sea
“As for her, I'd forgotten her for the moment. So I shall never understand why, suddenly, bewilderingly, I was certain that everything I had imagined to be truth was false. False. Only the magic and the dream are true—all the rest's a lie. Let it go. Here is the secret. Here.”
― Wide Sargasso Sea
― Wide Sargasso Sea
“He did not look up because he knew how senseless the landscape would appear. It takes energy to invest life with meaning, and at present this energy was lacking. He knew how things could stand bare, their essence having retreated on all sides to beyond the horizon, as if impelled by a sinister centrifugal force.”
― The Sheltering Sky
― The Sheltering Sky
Kali’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kali’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
301 books
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121 friends
1,448 books
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111 friends
1,410 books
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68 friends
1,671 books
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263 friends
330 books
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58 friends
460 books
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60 friends
463 books
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19 friends
598 books
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357 friends
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