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“Have you ever seen so many people," she whispered, "gathered in one place in order to be rich, powerful and disgusting together?”
― Underworld
― Underworld
“In time I let my head ease back on the top step and I closed my eyes. I was moving into the biblical phase of the afternoon, the peak of my new simplicity. A verity less than eternal had little appeal. I prepared myself to think of night, desert, sorrowful forests, of the moon, the stars, the west wind, baptismal mist and the rich myrrh of harvested earth. Instead I thought of tits.”
― End Zone
― End Zone
“You are so vulnerably haunting; Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“Undoubtedly someone is going to toss the words heteronormative and individualizing the structural at me, and that person should stop reading immediately, not just this book but all books, your mind is broken and it is better suited for TV. I don't mean you are stupid, only that you are even more a product of the system you hate than the porn you think you reject.”
― Sadly, Porn
― Sadly, Porn
“I found myself remembering the day in kindergarten when the teachers showed us Dumbo, and I realized for the first time that all the kids in the class, even the bullies, rooted for Dumbo, against Dumbo's tormentors. Invariably they laughed and cheered, both when Dumbo succeeded and when bad things happened to his enemies. But they're you, I thought to myself. How did they not know? They didn't know. It was astounding, an astounding truth. Everyone thought they were Dumbo.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
Umar’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Umar’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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425 friends
338 books
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765 books
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240 books
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