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“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.”
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“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
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“In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities.”
― The Story of My Life
― The Story of My Life
“Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,
"You owe me."
Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.”
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After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,
"You owe me."
Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.”
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“[Her life] had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hair-brush and told, "There you go." She'd stood there for years, blinking and befuddled, brushing the can with the brush.”
― Birds of America: Stories
― Birds of America: Stories
Monica’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Monica’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,277 books
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2,377 friends
2,247 books
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3,522 friends
70 books
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2,487 friends
682 books
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42 friends
487 books
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128 friends
434 books
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627 friends
243 books
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72 friends
736 books
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48 friends
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