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“Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.”
― A Passage to India
― A Passage to India
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
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“We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person...so it's easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you.”
― Fruits Basket Ultimate Edition, Vol. 3
― Fruits Basket Ultimate Edition, Vol. 3
“If other ages felt less, they saw more, even though they saw with the blind, prophetical, unsentimental eye of acceptance, which is to say, of faith. In the absence of this faith now, we govern by tenderness. It is a tenderness which, long cut off from the person of Christ, is wrapped in theory. When tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical outcome is terror. It ends in forced-labor camps and in the fumes of the gas chamber.”
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“I... There was a time when I stopped talking. Just like you. My reasons were a little bit different, but I think the feelings of being ashamed of myself and hating myself are the same. Here, it says to "like yourself." What does that mean? Good things- how are you supposed to find them? I only know things that I hate about myself. Because that's all I know, I hate myself. But even if you force yourself to find good things, it feels so empty. It doesn't work that way. People like your teacher just don't get it. I think when you hear someone say they like you, for the first time, then you can begin to like yourself. I think when someone accepts you, for the first time, you feel like you can forgive yourself a little. You can begin to face your fears with courage.”
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Natalie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Natalie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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140 friends
1,094 books
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101 friends
391 books
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2,074 books
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183 friends
857 books
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68 friends
194 books
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36 friends
131 books
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33 books
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38 friends
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