Ryan Halec

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Ryan’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (10)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (738)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
ya‎ (242)
adult‎ (212)
realistic-fiction‎ (171)
classics-1900s‎ (113)
romance‎ (111)
novella‎ (110)
sci-fi‎ (110)
fantasy‎ (83)

historical‎ (79)
dystopia‎ (77)
lgbt‎ (66)
finds‎ (61)
urban-fantasy‎ (59)
middle-grade‎ (49)
east-asian‎ (43)
classics-old‎ (39)
classics‎ (35)
mystery-crime‎ (32)
paranormal‎ (32)
boring‎ (30)

horror‎ (30)
weird‎ (29)
contemporary‎ (28)
retellings‎ (26)
plays‎ (24)
french‎ (22)
characters‎ (18)
karson‎ (18)
japanese‎ (17)
magical-realism‎ (17)
s‎ (17)
trans‎ (17)

mental-illness‎ (16)
eastern-european‎ (15)
chinese‎ (13)
classics-modern-lit‎ (13)
experimental‎ (13)
favorites‎ (13)
german-austrian‎ (13)
latin-america‎ (13)
classics-very-old‎ (12)
italian‎ (11)
russian‎ (11)
modernist‎ (10)

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Ryan’s Quotes

“One cannot change, that is to say become a different person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one has ceased to be.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

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“Now you’ve said it. The hopeless emptiness. Hell, plenty of people are on to the emptiness part; out where I used to work, on the Coast, that’s all we ever talked about. We’d sit around talking about emptiness all night. Nobody ever said ‘hopeless,’ though; that’s where we’d chicken out. Because maybe it does take a certain amount of guts to see the emptiness, but it takes a whole hell of a lot more to see the hopelessness. And I guess when you do see the hopelessness, that’s when there’s nothing to do but take off. If you can”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

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