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“It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year's Eve. Now I had to cope with Valentine datelessness, feeling consummate social pressure from every retailer in America who stuck hearts and cupids on their windows by January second to rub it in. (Thwonk)”
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“What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.”
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“He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh - it became an entry in a dictionary of loneliness.”
― Her Fearful Symmetry
― Her Fearful Symmetry
“Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.”
― Lisey's Story
― Lisey's Story
“I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They don't have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They get wantin' to fight all the time. . . 'Course Lennie's a God damn nuisance most of the time, but you get used to goin' around with a guy an' you can't get rid of him.”
― Of Mice and Men
― Of Mice and Men
Eric’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Eric’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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181 friends
1,235 books
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98 friends
2,281 books
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503 friends
12,789 books
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350 friends
4,014 books
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223 friends
2,876 books
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102 friends
3,728 books
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233 friends
681 books
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99 friends
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