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Jackie
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“What I enjoy most,” he said, “is living like an aristocrat without the burden of having to be one.
“A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
Jackie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jackie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
508 books
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61 friends
509 books
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21 friends
207 books
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136 friends
342 books
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17 friends
23 books
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1 friend
17 books
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1 friend
71 books
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6 friends
1 book
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2 friends
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