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“We squeeze his hand. He squeezes back. You stare up at the same sky together, and after a while he says, I have to go, and you say, Good-bye, and he says Good-bye, Aza, and no one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“she told me that beauty was mostly a matter of attention. “The river is beautiful because you are looking at it,”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“We always say we are beneath the stars. We aren't, of course—there is no up or down, and anyway the stars surround us. But we say we are beneath them, which is nice. So often English glorifies the human—we are whos, other animals are that—but English puts us beneath the stars, at least.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“Does it hurt?' I nodded. 'You know Sekou Sundiata, in a poem, he said the most important part of the body 'ain't the heart or the lungs or the brain. The biggest, most important part of the body is the part that hurts.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“Most adults are just hollowed out. You watch them try to fill themselves up with booze or money or God or fame or whatever they worship, and it all rots them from the inside until nothing is left but the money or the booze or God they though would save them. Adults think they are wielding power, but really power is wielding them.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
Chloe’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Chloe’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
252 books
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15 friends
75 books
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19 friends
30 books
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7 friends
141 books
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6 friends
31 books
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8 friends
247 books
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20 friends
175 books
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4 friends
148 books
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4 friends
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