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“I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.”
― Tropic of Capricorn
― Tropic of Capricorn
“The measure of a man is not what he does for wages but what he does with his free time.”
― Adjustment Day
― Adjustment Day
“I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
Shay’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shay’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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38 friends
431 books
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125 books
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852 books
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388 books
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119 books
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54 friends
114 books
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119 books
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