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“At once a suspicion of fakery springs to mind – that such a Person is not him or herself, but an eye that’s constantly watching, and whatever it sees it changes into sentences; in the process it strips reality of its most essential quality – its inexpressibility.”
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“and I wondered, why return? When we—the meadow and I—had finished with each other, we had no more business between us.”
― Go as a River
― Go as a River
“I could think of feelings, emotions, but I couldn’t bring them up in me. I couldn’t even locate where my emotions came from. My brain? It made no sense. Irritation was what I knew best—a heaviness on my chest, a vibration in my neck like my head was revving up before it would rocket off my body.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“If I, mousey and unrefined as I was, could rouse envy, then surely anything could ignite its spark. I felt dangerously close to something sinister and was wholly unsure how I got there.”
― Go as a River
― Go as a River
“The fear felt like desire: suddenly I wanted to go back and be in all the places I’d ever been, every street I’d walked down, every room I’d sat down in. I wanted to see it all again. I tried to remember my life, flipping through Polaroids in my mind. “It was so pretty there. It was interesting!” But I knew that even if I could go back, if such a thing were possible with exactitude, in life or in dreams, there was really no point.”
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Dani’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Dani’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
57 books
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22 friends
329 books
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9 friends
99 books
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9 friends
374 books
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83 friends
0 books
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2 friends
0 books
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14 friends
109 books
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5 friends
1 book
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16 friends
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