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“To do nothing in the face of another's misfortune is to be no better than those who might have caused it to begin with, and the measure of the best of us is that we can correctly measure our own inconvenience against the weight of someone else's pain.”
― The Land of Lost Things
― The Land of Lost Things
“The author had found a way to turn his pain into a novel, and that novel had occasionally helped others with their pain. That was what stories did, or the ones that mattered to us: They helped us to understand others, but they could also make us feel understood in turn, and less alone in the world.”
― The Land of Lost Things
― The Land of Lost Things
“Ladies, get you a man who can handle a portal to hell without freaking out.”
― The Hollow Places
― The Hollow Places
“I cannot be too young or too old, too beautiful or too ugly. I cannot weep or rage. I cannot refuse a man nor fuck him nor marry him—a queen is only powerful if there are no kings or princes nearby.”
― The Everlasting
― The Everlasting
“It is the curse of being long-lived: life ceases to hold many surprises, and only by giving oneself up to extremes can the monotony be broken.”
― The Land of Lost Things
― The Land of Lost Things
Leslie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Leslie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,271 books
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368 friends
217 books
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47 friends
2,392 books
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2,014 friends
1,098 books
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93 friends
430 books
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28 friends
646 books
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28 friends
360 books
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36 friends
915 books
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118 friends
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