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“Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
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“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.”
― Sputnik Sweetheart
― Sputnik Sweetheart
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
― Mostly Harmless
― Mostly Harmless
“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Chrissy90’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Chrissy90’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,461 books
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430 friends
313 books
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15 friends
205 books
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10 friends
108 books
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277 friends
8 books
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3 friends
122 books
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1 friend
152 books
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2 friends
10 books
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1 friend
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