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“As a confirmed bachelor I was an outsider, a nonperson within my own family. If I wanted that to change, I had to get hitched. That simple. All of which made my twenty-ninth birthday a complex milestone, and some days a complex migraine.”
― Spare
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“It struck me at some point that the whole basis of education was memory. A list of names, a column of numbers, a mathematical formula, a beautiful poem—to learn it you had to upload it to the part of the brain that stored stuff, but that was the same part of my brain I was resisting. My memory had been spotty since Mummy disappeared, by design, and I didn’t want to fix it, because memory equaled grief.
Not remembering was balm.”
― Spare
Not remembering was balm.”
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“Study, concentration, requires an alliance with the mind, and in my teen years I was waging all-out war with mine.”
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― Spare
“not to be devastated by my mistake, but instead to be motivated. He spoke to me with the quality one often encounters in truly wise people—forgiveness.”
― Spare
― Spare
“Yanks didn’t beat about the bush, didn’t fill the air with polite snorts and throat clearings before coming to the point. Whatever was on their mind, they’d spit it out, like a sneeze, and while that could be problematic at times, I usually found it preferable to the alternative: No one saying what they truly felt. No one wanting to hear how you felt.”
― Spare
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Tiffany’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Tiffany’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,738 books
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169 friends
86 books
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252 friends
88 books
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51 friends
286 books
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131 friends
208 books
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74 friends
88 books
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108 friends
75 books
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154 friends
61 books
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97 friends
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