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“This is the middle of my life, I think of it as a place, like the middle of a river, the middle of a bridge, halfway across, halfway over. I'm supposed to have accumulated things by now: possessions, responsibilities, achievements, experience and wisdom. I'm supposed to be a person of substance.”
― Cat’s Eye
― Cat’s Eye
“I wanted very much not to be where I was. In fact part of the trouble seemed to be that where I was wasn’t anywhere at all. My life felt empty and unreal... I felt like I was in danger of vanishing, though at the same time the feelings I had were so raw and overwhelming that I often wished I could find a way of losing myself altogether, perhaps for a few months, until the intensity diminished.”
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
“If I was going to fall, I would hang on to my small comforts, at least, for as long as I possibly could.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.”
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“You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone. Memories are the Westlake uniforms in the closet, the faded and cracked photographs, the invitations to the weddings of the people who are no longer married, the mass cards from the funerals of the people whose faces you no longer remember. Memories are what you no longer want to remember.”
― Blue Nights
― Blue Nights
Nina’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Nina’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
618 books
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823 friends
1,819 books
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692 friends
817 books
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1,014 friends
660 books
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57 friends
1,178 books
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378 friends
994 books
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19 friends
1,013 books
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32 friends
4,900 books
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1,232 friends
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