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“People enter our lives for a season, a reason, or a lifetime.”
― Every Exquisite Thing
― Every Exquisite Thing
“And then one day you will look for you in the mirror and you’ll no longer be able to identify yourself—you’ll only see everyone else. You’ll know that you did what they wanted you to do. You will have assimilated. And you will hate yourself for it, because it will be too late.”
― Every Exquisite Thing
― Every Exquisite Thing
“If Mom died, the sun would go out. Period.”
― I'll Give You the Sun
― I'll Give You the Sun
“Sometimes you just have to pick a direction and make mistakes. Then you use what you learn from your failure to pick new, better directions so you can make more mistakes and keep learning.”
― Every Exquisite Thing
― Every Exquisite Thing
“Far too often, people are woefully predictable. And I know many things. It's a curse. Here's something else I know: You are not doomed to be your parents. You can break the cycle. You can be whoever you want to be. But you will pay a price. You parents and everyone else will punish you if you choose to be you and not them. That's the price of your freedom. The cage is unlocked, but everyone is too scared to walk out because they whack you when you try, and they whack you hard. They want you to be scared, too. They want you to stay in the cage. But once you are a few steps beyond the trapdoor, they can't reach you anymore, so the whacking stops. That's another secret: They're too afraid to follow. They adore their own cages.”
― Every Exquisite Thing
― Every Exquisite Thing
Alyssa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alyssa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
775 books
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279 friends
31 books
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1 friend
2 books
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1 friend
1 book
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67 friends
8 books
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74 friends
1 book
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31 friends
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