“But mostly, I cried because my life had been going full speed for so long and now it had just stopped, like running right into a big brick wall, knocking the wind and the fight right out of me. And I didn’t know if I ever even wanted to get up and start breathing again.”
― Dreamland
― Dreamland
“Think of your happy memories. Know they are still in you. They are part of you. And maybe even they ARE you.”
― Again Again
― Again Again
“It was easier to just float along as if sleeping that whole first part of the year, going through the motions and staring like one of those ghostly dolls, waiting for something to wake me up.”
― Dreamland
― Dreamland
“All four of them took a moment to wish. Adelaide wished to love someone and be loved back. And to love someone and know that it was him she loved, not some idea of him. Maybe that was two wishes. Maybe it was only one.”
― Again Again
― Again Again
“Maybe I even have, like, an addiction to love, or to relationships or something. It’s like being in love makes me feel better, much better, than I do the rest of the time. Except when it makes me miserable. Maybe it’s an endorphin rush? Or a validation? Romantic obsessional tendency—that is not a good quality in a person.”
― Again Again
― Again Again
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