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one chapter at a time, trying to bring back my reading streak (slowly)

"Because happiness is brief, and history is lasting, and in the end,” he says, “everyone wants to be remembered"

After adjusting to work life by the end of this year, I hope to get back on my reading progress and complete my reading goals!

Part 5 Chapter XI-XII — The only way Addie knows how to keep going is to keep going forward

Here goes the 12-week course!

part 5 chapter VIII-X — When the impossible is so obvious. Your mind can’t make sense of it, so you try again and again and again, convinced that this time, it will be different.
This, she knows, is how you go mad.

part 5 chapter II-VII — As she is plunged into absolute darkness.
It is not as still as death, not as empty, or calm. There is a violence to this blind black void. It is birds’ wings beating against her skin. It is the rush of the wind in her hair. It is a thousand whispering voices. It is fear, and falling, and it is a feral, wild feeling, and by the time she thinks to scream, the darkness has peeled away again, ...

Part 4 chapter XVII-XIX, Part 5 chapter I — You can't make people love you, [Hen]. If it's not a choice, it isn't real

part IV chapter XI-XVI — that he'd blinked and somehow years had gone by, and everyone else had carved their trenches, paved their paths, and he was still standing in a field, uncertain where to dig

Part 4 Chapter X — Henry knows he could take the train, it's certainly cheaper, but the truth is, he likes driving. Or rather, he likes the white noise that comes with driving, the steady concreteness of going from here to there, the directions, the control. Most of all, he likes the inability to do anything else but drive, hands on the wheel, eyes on the road, music blaring through the speakers

Part 4 Chapter VIII-IX — Art is about ideas. And ideas are wilder than memories. They're like weeds, always finding their way up.

Part 4 Chapter VI-VII — He doesn't want to do this anymore, doesn't even want to be there, in an apartment that somehow feels both empty and cluttered. There's too much space to think. There's not enough to breathe.

Part 4 Chapter V — You deserve someone who loves you as you are. The good and the bad and the maddening

part 4 chapter III-IV — I didn't want to live forever. I just wanted to live

part 4 chapter I-II — They've left his heart too open. Forgotten to close back up the armor of his chest. And now he feels too much. Other people would call him sensitive, but it is more than that. The dial is broken, the volume turned all the way up. Moments of joy register as brief, but ecstatic. Moments of pain stretch long and unbearably loud.

part 3 chapter XII-XIII — She eases the door open — the wood is rotted, crumbling — and steps into the shed (going back to your hometown may be like a roller coaster experience, a surge of emotions, emotions that were hidden, buried inside going out all at once)

part 3 chapter XI — And she wants to stop time, to hide, to disappear

part 3 chapter x — He is full of roots, while she has only branches

part 3 chapter IX — But ideas are so much wilder than memories, so much faster to take root

part 3 chapter VIII — Henry winds a little tighter at her side. He hesitates, exhales. “There’s something else you should know,” he says at last, “about me.”

part 3 chapter VII — “Who are you?” she whispers to the empty room

She is simply moving forward, because she cannot bear the idea of standing still

part 3 chapter VI

A crack of thunder, and seconds later, the rain comes down. Not a drizzle—not even the sparse warning drops that soon give way to a steady rain—but the sudden sheet fall of a downpour. The kind of rain that hits you like a wall, soaks you through in seconds

part 3 chapter V

part 3 chapter IV

quote
> If you only walk in other people’s steps, you cannot make your own way. You cannot leave a mark

progress this week
> 1 day of 5
> 0 successful weeks

2022
> 3 weeks longest streak
> 61 total reading days
> 9 books read of 20

Do you ever feel like you're running out of time?

Live long enough, and you learn how to read a person. To ease them open like a book, some passages underlined and others hidden between the lines

2022

reading plan: 6 times a week
longest streak: 3 weeks
total reading days: 56
9 books read of 20

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