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“Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.”
― The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
― The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
“She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somewhere and to someone. People thought she was too wonderful. But she only wanted to belong to someone. People always thought she was too wonderful to belong to them or that something too wonderful would hurt too much to lose. And that's why she liked him-- because he just thought she was crazy.”
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“I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.”
― The Piano Lesson
― The Piano Lesson
“I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.”
― The Giver
― The Giver
“Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
Maris’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Maris’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
3,644 books
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418 friends
137 books
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88 friends
228 books
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419 friends
14,448 books
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271 friends
728 books
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11 friends
277 books
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140 friends
372 books
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223 friends
265 books
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57 friends
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