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“I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.”
― Jealousy
― Jealousy
“That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.”
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“That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was constantly in motion, it seemed as if nothing special ever happened to her anymore. Each day seemed exactly like the last, and she had trouble differentiating among them.”
― Message in a Bottle
― Message in a Bottle
“If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.”
― Inkheart
― Inkheart
“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
Laurel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Laurel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2 books
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75 friends
99 books
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1 book
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44 friends
3 books
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95 friends
0 books
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5 friends
1 book
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29 friends
540 books
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54 friends
159 books
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98 friends
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