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“You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.”
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“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”
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“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
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“I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.”
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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
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Amarantha’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Amarantha’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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