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“...We humans are reckless with our bodies, reckless with our lives, for no other reason than that we want to know what would happen, what it might feel like to brush up against death, to run right up to the edge of our lives, which is, in some ways, to live fully.”
― Transcendent Kingdom
― Transcendent Kingdom
“For that is of course what it means to read a novel and live in it for a while. You are viscerally inside someone else’s reality. You feel and understand things you have not known before, and that is both scary and exhilarating. The world becomes more clear, reality more vivid, and your own experience larger.”
― Bastard Out of Carolina
― Bastard Out of Carolina
“Language can carry us past the horror to the sense of purpose in a life that refuses to surrender to that darkness.”
― Bastard Out of Carolina
― Bastard Out of Carolina
“My memories of him, though few, are mostly pleasant, but memories of people you hardly know are often permitted a kind of pleasantness in their absence. It's those who stay who are judged the harshest, simply by virtue of being around to be judged.”
― Transcendent Kingdom
― Transcendent Kingdom
“My mother was happy that day, we did not know why. And if she was sad the next, we did not know why. And if she was gone the next, we did not know why. It was as if she righted herself continually against some current that never ceased to pull. She swayed continuously, like a thing in water, and it was graceful, a slow dance, a sad and heady dance”
― Housekeeping
― Housekeeping
Rachel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rachel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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27 friends
143 books
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341 books
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34 friends
954 books
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411 books
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1,048 books
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118 friends
815 books
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330 friends
777 books
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231 friends
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