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“He looked him right in the eyes and saw a man who was great and good and human, who had done extraordinary things and terrible things and been broken and reassembled as a shell, only then to do the bravest thing of all: He had kept on living, though there are easier paths to take.”
― Strange the Dreamer
― Strange the Dreamer
“There was a word from a myth: sathaz . It was the desire to possess that which can never be yours. It meant senseless, hopeless yearning, the way a gutter child might dream of being king, and it came from the tale of the man who loved the moon.”
― Muse of Nightmares
― Muse of Nightmares
“When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
― Romeo and Juliet
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
― Romeo and Juliet
“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
Tess’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Tess’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,317 books
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2,156 friends
3,811 books
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5,000 friends
1,103 books
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2,844 friends
1,038 books
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4,998 friends
1,976 books
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1,887 friends
1,196 books
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1,149 friends
16,916 books
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4,994 friends
2,014 books
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83 friends
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