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“violence of the archive.” This concept—also called “archival silence”—illustrates a difficult truth: sometimes stories are destroyed, and sometimes they are never uttered in the first place; either way something very large is irrevocably
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“Because unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― The Lorax
― The Lorax
“Sometimes you need people to be perfect and they can’t be and you hate them forever for not being even though it isn’t their fault and it’s not yours either. You just needed something they didn’t have in them to give you.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“But I’m very happy that I met you. And even knowing that you’re alive, I feel like my life will be a lot better. Just being able to remember – being with you, and having such a nice experience together.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“Yes I would like he thinks to live in such a way that I could vanish into thin air at any time without affecting anyone and in fact I feel that for me this would constitute the perfect and perhaps the only acceptable life. At the same time I want desperately to be loved.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
Hema’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Hema’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
648 books
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126 friends
1,548 books
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106 friends
977 books
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49 friends
545 books
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4,997 friends
1,374 books
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177 friends
742 books
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118 friends
1,142 books
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392 friends
1,896 books
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208 friends
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