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“I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me.”
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“If you're happy in a dream, does that count?”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
“And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“The past is a curious thing. It’s with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the time it’s got no reality, it’s just a set of facts that you’ve learned, like a lot of stuff in a history book. Then some chance sight or sound or smell, especially smell, sets you going, and the past doesn’t merely come back to you, you’re actually IN the past. It was like that at this moment.”
― Coming up for Air
― Coming up for Air
Lu’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lu’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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3 friends
99 books
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46 friends
414 books
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172 friends
83 books
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62 friends
79 books
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42 friends
585 books
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330 friends
1 book
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3 friends
41 books
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15 friends
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