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It’s a beautiful country, she’s been told, depending on who you are.
“To work your way forward when you are permanently lost means, yes, to be exhausted and adrift, a stranger in a strange land. But... it also means living in a state of endless discovery. The world unfurls itself anew each day with dawn's first cold breath on the city. You re-encounter what you are: lonely likely a body with a gift for burning.”
― Places I've Taken My Body: Essays
― Places I've Taken My Body: Essays
“If the world had a mind to harm it would do so the prepared and unprepared equally”
― Wednesday's Child: Stories
― Wednesday's Child: Stories
“Love to him would have felt more like the pain of longing rather than joying union”
― The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read [and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did]
― The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read [and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did]
“Constant motion camouflages the extent to which I'm alien even to myself.”
― Places I've Taken My Body: Essays
― Places I've Taken My Body: Essays
“Never quite understand what I was meant to settle for instead. That was the way it was. You could never ask why. You have to work it out in between the gaps, in the silence, between each careful mouthful of chewing Sunday dinner or run your finger tips along the wall paper and underneath the aging drawn liner in the bedrooms.
Like that time I introduced her to Alfie, "Well that's fine Ena, if that's who you settle for" she said in the kitchen on the morning of my wedding with a faint scent of betrayal. Through I could never understand how I could I have disappointment her so much if I never was shown another way.”
― Somebody Loves You
Like that time I introduced her to Alfie, "Well that's fine Ena, if that's who you settle for" she said in the kitchen on the morning of my wedding with a faint scent of betrayal. Through I could never understand how I could I have disappointment her so much if I never was shown another way.”
― Somebody Loves You
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Praniya’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Praniya’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
47 books
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10 friends
631 books
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851 books
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101 books
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268 books
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166 books
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29 books
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13 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Business, Contemporary, Fiction, Graphic novels, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, and Romance
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