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“Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.”
― Second Glance
― Second Glance
“When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.”
― Handle with Care
― Handle with Care
“Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up.”
― Nineteen Minutes
― Nineteen Minutes
“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― A Man Without a Country
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― A Man Without a Country
Carrie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Carrie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
6,239 books
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4,472 friends
2,243 books
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56 friends
2,210 books
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144 friends
1,939 books
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