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Carolyn
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The trouble with therapy, the main issue Robert had always had with trying to cram his life into a series of neat one-hour slots, was that even though it was his pain, the moment he put it into words and presented the bleeding package of it
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“It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention”
― The Art of Fielding
― The Art of Fielding
“The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“You told me once that a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love. And you did that with more dedication than most, that work of building a soul-not for your own benefit but for the benefit of those that knew you.”
― The Art of Fielding
― The Art of Fielding
“I am not dying," said Rumfoord. "I am merely taking my leave of the solar system. And I am not even doing that. In the grand, in the timeless, in the chronosynclastic infundibulated way of looking at things. I shall always be here. I shall always be wherever I've been.”
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“Tis a Fearful Thing
‘Tis a fearful thing
to love what death can touch.
A fearful thing
to love, to hope, to dream, to be –
to be,
And oh, to lose.
A thing for fools, this,
And a holy thing,
a holy thing
to love.
For your life has lived in me,
your laugh once lifted me,
your word was gift to me.
To remember this brings painful joy.
‘Tis a human thing, love,
a holy thing, to love
what death has touched.”
―
‘Tis a fearful thing
to love what death can touch.
A fearful thing
to love, to hope, to dream, to be –
to be,
And oh, to lose.
A thing for fools, this,
And a holy thing,
a holy thing
to love.
For your life has lived in me,
your laugh once lifted me,
your word was gift to me.
To remember this brings painful joy.
‘Tis a human thing, love,
a holy thing, to love
what death has touched.”
―
Carolyn’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Carolyn’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
142 books
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106 friends
192 books
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51 friends
1,100 books
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388 books
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405 books
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199 friends
143 books
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50 friends
377 books
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62 friends
107 books
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115 friends
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