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“If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending...
But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone.
You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone.
You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“Burning down others’ opinions doesn’t make us right. It makes us arsonists.”
― Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
― Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
“She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation.
In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous, each door and stair and bed. What he said, what she said, what they did, what they did then. Even the times they argued, fought, parted, agonized, rejoined. How they’d loved to cut themselves on each other, taste their own blood. We were ruinous together, she thinks. But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?”
― The Blind Assassin
In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous, each door and stair and bed. What he said, what she said, what they did, what they did then. Even the times they argued, fought, parted, agonized, rejoined. How they’d loved to cut themselves on each other, taste their own blood. We were ruinous together, she thinks. But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?”
― The Blind Assassin
Maria’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Maria’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
422 books
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136 friends
887 books
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709 books
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634 books
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173 books
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577 books
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32 books
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95 friends
179 books
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