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Rae Leaver Rahman
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“I want to drive men crazy,” Iris said in her customary arch manner. “I want men to suffer. I want a man to love me so much he murders me. I want to die because I’m loved too much for him to tolerate my existence.”
“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
“Small, hunched, dark-haired, he scuttled from the car. A beetle of a man.”
― Water Shall Refuse Them
― Water Shall Refuse Them
“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 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
“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
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3,034 books
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19 friends
570 books
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64 friends
173 books
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3 friends
543 books
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1,338 books
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11 friends
2,484 books
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215 friends
866 books
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10 friends
780 books
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19 friends
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