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BOOKS READ IN 2018: gemina by amie kaufman and jay kristoff
This tiny moment. In between the time you decide to pull a trigger and the time death arrives. There’s just you and it and everything you’re about to take away. It’s too big. It goes forever.
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BOOKS READ IN 2018: Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
Generally speaking, people tend not to question what they’ve been told was true. Scientists are no different; they’ve just been told a lot more things.
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BOOKS READ IN 2018: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
What’s the point of having a voice if you’re gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn’t be?
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but there is the happiness he promised, too. he loves me without being in love with me and that’s all i can ask of him. i don’t even need to hear him say it to believe it
«MOREHAPPYTHANNOT»BYADAMSILVERA
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books read in 2022:scout’s honor by lily anderson
i cannot teach my boyfriend’s little sister to kill monsters!
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books read in 2022: warbreaker, by brandon sanderson
I try to avoid having thoughts. They leave to other thoughts and - if you’re not careful - those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on good authority from someone who read it in a book.
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books read in 2022: kaikeyi by vaishnavi patel
“No matter what is said about you, Kaikeyi, remember that you did the right thing. You are not wicked.”
“Then why do I feel wicked?” I whispered.
“Because those who are good question themselves. Because those who are good always wonder if there was a better way, a way that could have helped more and hurt less. That feeling is why you are good.”
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“I’ll figure something out” probably wound up being the last sentence said by a lot of people in difficult scenarios.
We Could Be Heroes // Mike Chen
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books read in 2016 - 2017: survive the night by danielle vega
T e l l me you don’t love that.
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books read in 2016 - 2017: a totally awkward love story by tom ellen and lucy ivison
Eighteen is supposed to be the age when you become an adult. When you are complete. How can anyone feel finished by now? I don’t even feel started. I haven’t done anything, I haven’t been anywhere.
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books read in 2016 - 2017: road trip summer by lauren barnholdt
When people start liking people, that’s when someone has the ability to get hurt.
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books read in 2016 - 2017: the old man and the sea by ernest hemingway
Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.
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books read in 2016 - 2017: are you my mother? by alison bechdel
I have never read Sylvia Plath. My mother has never read Virginia Woolf. In general, we have stayed out of one another’s way like this.
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books read in 2016 - 2017: fun home by alison bechdel
I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one’s erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.
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books read in 2016 - 2017: a list of cages by robin roe
“And when you smile…my grandmother calls them big-soul smiles. She says some people have souls so big that they spread out, touching everyone they pass.” Emerald wipes her wet face again. “There are different ways to help people, Adam. There are different ways to do good.”
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books read in 2016 - 2017: a song for ella grey by david almond
Maybe we were mad that day. Maybe some of the things that seemed to happen didn’t really happen at all. Maybe many of the things that seemed to happen in the days and weeks that followed didn’t really happen. Maybe it was all because we were young, and because being young is like being mad. Maybe just being human, at any age, is a bit like being mad.
But maybe the best things that we do, and the best things that we are, come from madness.
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books read in 2016 - 2017: 26 kisses by anna michels
“Finishing was never the point,“ she says, stuffing the pile of weeds she had collected into a brown yard bag. "Starting was.”
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books read in 2016 - 2017: miguel street by v. s. naipaul
A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say “Slum!” because he could see no more. But we who lived there saw our street as a world, where everybody was quite different from everybody else. Mam-man was mad; George was stupid; Big Foot was a bully; hat was an adventurer; Popo was a philosopher; and Morgan was our comedian.
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books read in 2016 - 2017: the last boy and girl in the world by siobhan vivian
We’ve been told that all good things must come to an end. Even things that feel permanent. Stuff that maybe we take for granted. Like this town. Or for me, my mom. So how tightly are we supposed to hold on to the stuff that we love? Really tightly? Or not at all? Should we be sad when they go away? Should we fight? Or is letting stuff we love go inevitable, like the old adage says?
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books i read in 2016 - 2017 : falling into place by amy zhang
She was tired. Gravity pulled at her more aggressively than usual. When she closed her eyes, she could feel it, dragging her deeper, deeper. I would have pulled her back. I would have saved her from falling, but she didn’t see my hand.
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books read in 2016 - 2017 : never always sometimes by adi alsaid
Human beings are more or less formulas. Pun intended. We are not any one thing that is mathematically provable. We are more or less than we are anything. We are more or less kind, or more or less not. More or less selfish, happy, wise, lonely.
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books read in 2016 - 2017 : the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald
They’re a rotten crowd. You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.
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