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She doesn’t understand what it means to love books so passionately that you would die without them, that you would simply stop breathing, stop existing.
“Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another”
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“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”
― Ender’s Game
― Ender’s Game
“No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one’s life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.”
― Speaker for the Dead
― Speaker for the Dead
“Telling the story of who she was, and then realizing that she was no longer the same person. That she had made a mistake, and the mistake had changed her, and now she would not make the mistake again because she had become someone else, someone less afraid, someone more compassionate.”
― Speaker for the Dead
― Speaker for the Dead
“The computers of the Hundred Worlds were hands and feet, eyes and ears to her. She spoke every language that had ever been committed to computers, and read every book in every library on every world. She learned that human beings had long been afraid that someone like her would come to exist; in all the stories she was hated, and her coming meant either her certain murder or the destruction of mankind. Even before she was born, human beings had imagined her, and, imagining her, slain her a thousand times.”
― Speaker for the Dead
― Speaker for the Dead
Sara’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Sara’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
11,567 books
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772 friends
64 books
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732 friends
0 books
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9 friends
362 books
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11 friends
147 books
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19 friends
2 books
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9 friends
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