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“But no turbulent emotions passed through me as he spoke, only a diluted version of the nauseating sensation that had taken hold the day in Bombay that I learned my mother was dying, a sensation that had dropped anchor in me and never fully left.”
― Unaccustomed Earth
― Unaccustomed Earth
“Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.”
― Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
― Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
“There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding. ”
― Unaccustomed Earth
― Unaccustomed Earth
“human being could be alive for years and years, thinking and breathing and eating, full of a million worries and feelings and thoughts, taking up space in the world, and then, in an instant, become absent, invisible.”
― Unaccustomed Earth
― Unaccustomed Earth
“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
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Noor’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Noor’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
516 books
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211 friends
243 books
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61 friends
261 books
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15 friends
252 books
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12 friends
143 books
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122 friends
216 books
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13 friends
135 books
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8 friends
34 books
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118 friends
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