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“There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I realised my life would be full of mundane physical suffering, and that there was nothing special about it. Suffering wouldn't make me special, and pretending not to suffer wouldn't make me special. Talking about it, or even writing about it, would not transform the suffering into something useful.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Many of them, like him, would never grow old enough to understand that you only go from one hardship to another. And that the best we can hope from life is that it is a wonderful depression.”
― The Lonely Hearts Hotel
― The Lonely Hearts Hotel
“We sat in silence, letting the green in the air heal what it could.”
― The Scent Keeper
― The Scent Keeper
“Personally I have to exercise a lot of agency in reading, and understanding what I read, and bearing it all in mind for long enough to make sense of the book as I go along. In no sense does it feel like a passive process by which beauty is transmitted to me without my involvement; it feels like an active effort, which an experience of beauty is the constructed result. But, I think more importantly, great novels engage my sympathies and make me desire things.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
Ryan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ryan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
569 books
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35 friends
645 books
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16 friends
970 books
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31 friends
223 books
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25 friends
323 books
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29 friends
654 books
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50 friends
176 books
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11 friends
98 books
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25 friends
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