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“In the quiet spaces opened up by the prolonged, undistracted reading of a book, people made their own associations, drew their own inferences and analogies, fostered their own ideas. They thought deeply as they read deeply.”
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
“Each person has a literature inside them.”
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“To write,” Marguerite Duras remarked, “is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.”
― When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
― When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“Don't feel bad for one moment about doing what brings you joy.”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
“Reading has not only changed my life but saved it. the right picked at the right time—especially the one that scares us, threatens to undermine all we have been told, the one that contains forbidden thoughts—these are the books that become Eve's apples.”
― When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
― When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
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Taylor’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Taylor’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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13 friends
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599 books
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505 books
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