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“This is how I lived back then– through books. I locked myself into their stories, dreamt of their characters at night, pretended to be them. They were my armour against the hard edges of reality. I carried them with me wherever I went, like a talisman in my pocket, thinking of them as almost more real than the people around me, who spoke and lived in denial, destined, I thought, to never do anything worth recounting.”
― Swimming in the Dark
― Swimming in the Dark
“I don't know what woke me up tonight . . . What I am certain of is this: my body feels depleted, like a foreign country after a war. And yet I cannot go back to sleep.
I think of you.”
― Swimming in the Dark
I think of you.”
― Swimming in the Dark
“I guess there is no photographic memory for emotions. But this is my truth right now, for better or worse.”
― Swimming in the Dark
― Swimming in the Dark
“No matter what happens in the world, however brutal or dystopian a thing, not all is lost if there are people out there making themselves to document it.”
― Swimming in the Dark
― Swimming in the Dark
“We stood for a moment, uncomfortable, mourning the missed opportunity. We searched for words, each one of us, trying to say something that meant anything. In the end, we just said goodbye. We said it casually, like we would see each other again soon or maybe like people who had never been much more than acquaintances. You two walked off, arm in arm, and I watched you, the burning cigarette still in my hand, the last thing you'd ever given me.”
― Swimming in the Dark
― Swimming in the Dark
Andrei’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Andrei’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
922 books
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41 friends
377 books
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59 friends
1,622 books
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4,916 friends
4,088 books
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2,418 friends
162 books
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7 friends
290 books
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17 friends
268 books
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34 friends
71 books
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10 friends
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