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Rae Leaver Rahman
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But once in a while I see a child crying with the deepest of desperation, and I think it is one of the truest sounds a child can make. I feel almost, then, that I can hear within me the sound of my own heart breaking, the way you could hear
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“I needed to get away. I wanted an adult life, restaurants, sexiness, conversation and art. I wanted to meet new people who didn’t know old things about me.”
― The Instant
― The Instant
“I should like to make life beautiful – I mean everybody’s life. And then all this immense expense of art, that seems somehow to lie outside life and make it no better for the world, pains one. It spoils my enjoyment of anything when I am made to think that most people are shut out from it.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“I don’t believe in soul mates anymore and I’m not looking for anything. But if I did believe in them, I’d believe your soul mate was somebody who had all the things you didn’t, that needed all the things you had. Not somebody who’s suffering from the same stuff you are.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
― Daisy Jones & The Six
“All those rural people who hate cities are afraid of something legit; cities really are different. They make a weight on the world, a tear in the fabric of reality, like . . . like black holes, maybe.”
― The City We Became
― The City We Became
“In New York I’d had a perennially sawdust-encrusted sculpture professor, who told my class, ‘You’ll know you’re a New Yorker when you have a dream where you discover another room in your apartment, through a closet, or behind a chest of drawers – if your subconscious is carving out legroom, you’re one of us.”
― Other People’s Clothes
― Other People’s Clothes
Rae’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rae’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
544 books
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9 friends
3,037 books
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571 books
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173 books
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1,338 books
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2,486 books
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215 friends
866 books
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780 books
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19 friends
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