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In college, I’d read Walden because a boy I found beautiful found the book beautiful.
“But my father was unabashedly panicked, openly scared in a way I wished he would keep from me.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“If you try to find one charity that both makes you feel good and contributes to the quality of life of other people, you’re going to find a charity that is pretty bad at doing one of those things.”
― Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help
― Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help
“It’s always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly. It is why I loved Celia. She was a very complicated woman who always kept me guessing. And here she had surprised me one more time. She had said, Go, have a baby. But she had meant to add, Just don’t act like a mother.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“He spent six weeks in jail before moving to a rehabilitation center in Camden County, where he became a guinea pig for a new psychotherapy treatment. He was made to wear a sign around his neck that read i’m a people pleaser and engaged in exercises in futility that would supposedly stimulate moral fiber. Every Saturday he dug a hole in the yard behind the institution, and every Sunday they made him fill it back up again. Any trouble I might be in seemed minor by comparison.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“The Age of Schizophrenia” (an essay bemoaning the ever-growing numbers of patients with that specific diagnosis, a widely discussed trend in the late 1930s) and “But Is the World Going Mad?” (an essay arguing that the ever-growing number of patients in mental hospitals was not cause for alarm, but rather proof of psychiatry’s progress in identifying and treating mental illness), I come away with a strong feeling that Mom’s worries about mental illness in her own family would have centered around two popular notions from that era:”
― Annie's Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret
― Annie's Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret
Saad’s 2025 Year in Books
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