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A baby changes into a toddler, then into a child, then into an adolescent; then a young adult, then a middle-aged adult, then an old person. And the change happens so gradually that there never is a day when you can say, ‘This person has
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The very gradual process of evolution
“I always thought, or imagined, that there were these invisible lines trembling in our wake, outlining our trajectories through life, throbbing with electric energy. Lines that sometimes cross one other, or follow in parallel ellipses without ever touching, or meet up for one brief moment and then part. A universe of lines crisscrossing in the void.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“Is it right,” Jutta says, “to do something only because everyone else is doing it?”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“Sometimes the eye of a hurricane is the safest place to be.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. The lungs the brain the heart. Forty weeks later, six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our mother’s birth canal and we howl. Then the world starts in on us.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
Mukul’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mukul’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
54 books
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118 friends
469 books
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287 friends
1 book
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244 friends
1 book
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18 friends
2 books
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190 friends
5 books
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92 friends
1 book
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52 friends
1 book
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184 friends
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