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“Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?”
― The Mill on the Floss
― The Mill on the Floss
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
ramya’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at ramya’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
458 books
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11 friends
100 books
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102 books
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37 friends
729 books
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486 books
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92 books
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292 books
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74 friends
43 books
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18 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Classics, Crime, Fiction, Historical fiction, Horror, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Philosophy, Poetry, Romance, Suspense, Thriller, and Young-adult
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