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Alanis Derouet
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“...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
Alanis’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alanis’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
94 books
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10 friends
529 books
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1,621 friends
14 books
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1 friend
46 books
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1 friend
43 books
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9 friends
7 books
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1 friend
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