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“Because I know how that dog-eared page persists and insists you return to it. I know how the brain and the heart and the spirit fight daily to stay in the book and not write themselves out of the story. I know. I know. I know.”
― I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying EPB: Essays – An Instant NYT Bestselling Memoir on Living with Anxiety
― I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying EPB: Essays – An Instant NYT Bestselling Memoir on Living with Anxiety
“That night was the first time in my life I felt like the words “gay” and “alone” weren’t synonyms for each other.”
― How We Fight For Our Lives
― How We Fight For Our Lives
“What we miss - what we lose and what we mourn - isn’t it this that makes us who, deep down, we truly are. To say nothing of what we wanted in life but never got to have.”
― The Friend
― The Friend
“Another question: why do people often find animal suffering harder to accept than the suffering of other human beings?”
― The Friend
― The Friend
“My grandmother always told me that she loved my prayers. She believed my prayers were more powerful, because I prayed in English. Everyone knows that Jesus, who's white, speaks English. The Bible is in English. Yes, the Bible was not written in English, but the Bible came to South Africa in English so to us it's in English. Which made my prayers the best prayers because English prayers get answered first. How do we know this? Look at white people.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Lydia’s 2025 Year in Books
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