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“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
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“I have this -- here’s this thing where it’s going to sound sappy to you. I have this unbelievably like five-year-old’s belief that art is just absolutely magic. And that good art can do things that nothing else in the solar system can do. And that the good stuff will survive, and get read, and that in the great winnowing process, the shit will sink and the good stuff will rise.”
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“She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.”
― The Marriage Plot
― The Marriage Plot
“In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.”
― The Marriage Plot
― The Marriage Plot
“Here is the life you have tried to throw away. Here is your second chance. Here is the destiny you have tried to shake off by inventing a hundred false roles, a hundred false identities for yourself. It will look at first like disaster, but is really good fortune in disguise, since fate too knows how to follow your evasions through a hundred forms of its own. Now you will become at last the one you intended to be.”
― An Imaginary Life
― An Imaginary Life
Nadiya’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Nadiya’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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86 friends
362 books
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271 books
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848 books
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329 books
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283 books
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484 books
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416 books
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