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“Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way they found each other.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
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“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― The Secret Garden
― The Secret Garden
“These and other inanimate things she saw and experienced. They were real to her. She knew them. They were the codes and touchstones of the world, capable of translation and possession. She owned the crack that made her stumble; she owned the clumps of dandelions whose white heads, last fall, she had blown away; whose yellow heads, this fall, she peered into. And owning them made her part of the world, and the world a part of her.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
Yasmin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Yasmin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
277 books
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77 friends
975 books
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21 friends
648 books
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68 friends
531 books
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6 friends
47 books
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40 friends
37 books
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6 friends
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