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“Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention.”
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“You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.”
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“People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.”
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“If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.”
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“Lately I've been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and how I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be. And when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: before I die, I want to be somebody's favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”
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Jessica’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jessica’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
4,986 books
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1,533 friends
836 books
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539 friends
1,453 books
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130 friends
676 books
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141 friends
823 books
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213 friends
376 books
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85 friends
342 books
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62 friends
283 books
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23 friends
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