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Kathleen
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Sometimes, in some roundabout way, the thing that I didn’t want to happen happens, and it leads to something else, and that something else turns out to be better than what I had hoped for.
“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
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“I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“I wonder if whoever invented World of Warcraft realizes it’s practice for sociopaths.”
― Every Fifteen Minutes
― Every Fifteen Minutes
“This story is one truth among others: a knitting together of objective facts and subjective probabilities.”
― The Goddess of Small Victories: A Novel of Gödel's Wife
― The Goddess of Small Victories: A Novel of Gödel's Wife
“There’s something in human nature, I’m beginning to learn, that makes an adult, when speaking to a younger person, magnify the little things and shrink the big ones. It’s like looking—or talking—through a kind of word-telescope that, no matter which end they choose, distorts the truth. Your mistakes are always magnified and your victories shrunken.”
― As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
― As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
Kathleen’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kathleen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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26 friends
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