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the dead romantics by ashley poston

i began to realize that love wasn't dead, but it wasn't forever, either. It was something in between, a moment in time where two people existed at the exact same moment in the exact same place in the universe.

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❧ favorite books read in 2024 → (3/?) house of leaves, by mark z. danielewski

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Books Read in 2024: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

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I HOPE THIS DOESN'T FIND YOU by ann liang

"You had to kiss me, then kick me, then fill my head with your voice. You made it clear－so terribly clear－how much you hate me. That I'm the last person in the world you would ever consider. But I kept looking for signs that would suggest otherwise. I kept wondering if it was still possible. Because I'm willing to lose everything, " he says, his eyes balcker than the surrounding darkness, than the sky outside, "so long as I don't lose you."

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books i read in 2024: florida by lauren groff

"She doesn't belong in France, perhaps she never did; she was always simply her flawed and neurotic self, even in French. Of all the places in the world, she belongs in Florida. How dispiriting, to learn this of herself."

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books i read in 2024: hell followed with us by andrew joseph white

“What's going on in my head? What do I believe? How much of it is me, and how much of it was put there? I don't know.”

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books i read in 2023: the color purple by alice walker

Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for.

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books i read in 2024: everyone knows your mother is a witch by rivka galchen

"Fools, braggarts, and purse grabbers had caused his mother's misery. Corruption, laziness, and malice. His defense poured over me like used cooking grease. He saw in Leonberg a horrible place."

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books i read in 2024: penance by eliza clark

Did you listen to a podcast? Did the hosts make jokes? Do you have a dark sense of humour? Did that make it okay? Or were they sensitive about it? Did they coo in the right places? Did they give you a content warning? Did you skip ahead? Did you see pictures? Did you look for them?

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books i read in 2024: babel, or the necessity of violence: an arcane history of the oxford translators' revolution

"For how could there ever be an Adamic language? The thought now made him laugh. There was no innate, perfectly comprehensible language; there was no candidate, not English, not French, that could bully and absorb enough to become one. Language was just difference. A thousand different ways of seeing, of moving through the world. No; a thousand worlds within one. And translation— a necessary endeavor, however futile, to move between them."

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books i read in 2024: yolk by mary h.k. choi

"It's good that you and June are together in New York," he continues. "Life's too hard over there to do it by yourself." He adds water to his mix. "Even if being together feels just as hard sometimes," he says. "Family's like that." He stirs for a while and then screws the lid back on. "But they're the ones who will help when no one else will." He stoops down to return his jar to the lower cupboard, closing it softly. The other back into the fridge. "It's when you really don't want to ask for help that you might need it the most."

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books i read in 2024: eileen by ottessa moshfegh

"I looked so boring, lifeless, immune and unaffected, but in truth I was always furious, seething, my thoughts racing, my mind like a killer’s. It was easy to hide behind the dull face I wore, moping around. I really thought I had everybody fooled."

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re-reading svsss because somehow it’s my comfort book for some reason when i’m stressed??

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books i read in 2024: the outsiders by s.e. hinton

"I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be."

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Calligraphy lessons

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books i read in 2024: come and get it by kiley reid

Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen.

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books i read in 2024: pachinko by min jin lee

"History has failed us, but no matter."