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Meatless Days

by Sara Suleri Goodyear

bookshelves: currently-reading, physical-owned, south-asian, non-fiction

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"i found this book in the library some months back but never really started reading it, but the introduction itself had told me i needed to buy a physical copy to make notes- which i did. it's a really rich, complex text so i really do pray i don't give up on it" — May 09, 2026 01:32PM

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“Awakening to the power of words—the power not to hurt others but to protect them, to tell them things, to form connections with them—had taught her to probe her own mind and inclined her to make allowances for other people’s thoughts and feelings.”
― Shion Miura, The Great Passage

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“Human beings had created words to communicate with the dead, and with those yet unborn.”
― Shion Miura, The Great Passage

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“Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

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“For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“The more you took a project to heart, the more your expectations of others on the team were bound to rise. The same way that if you loved someone, you wanted them to love you back.”
― Shion Miura, The Great Passage

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