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“The sun was rising behind her now; she could feel the heat on her back, and it gave her courage.”
― The Princess Bride
― The Princess Bride
“you shall above all things be glad and young”
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“More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
“On Keeping a Journal.
Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptacle for one’s private, secret thoughts—like a confidante who is deaf, dumb, and illiterate. In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could do to any person; I create myself.
The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather—in many cases—offers an alternative to it.”
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptacle for one’s private, secret thoughts—like a confidante who is deaf, dumb, and illiterate. In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could do to any person; I create myself.
The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather—in many cases—offers an alternative to it.”
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“In the diary you find proof that in situations which today would seem unbearable, you lived, looked around and wrote down observations, that this right hand moved then as it does today, when we may be wiser because we are able to look back upon our former condition, and for that very reason have got to admit the courage of our earlier striving in which we persisted even in sheer ignorance.”
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Shyla’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shyla’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,060 books
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52 friends
6 books
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40 friends
327 books
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81 friends
510 books
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6 friends
364 books
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41 friends
66 books
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39 friends
22 books
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55 friends
63 books
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44 friends
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