

“My point is, it takes a special person to cry over a book. It shows compassion as well as imagination...Don't ever lose that”
― Melissa
― Melissa

“A woman at a certain age who is unmarried, our society teaches her to see it as a deep personal failure. And a man, after a certain age isn’t married, we just think he hasn’t come around to making his pick.”
― We Should All Be Feminists
― We Should All Be Feminists

“The best books, they don't talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things you'd always thought about, but that you didn't think anyone else had thought about. You read them, and suddenly you're a little bit less alone in the world. You're part of this cosmic community of people who've thought about this thing, whatever it happens to be.”
― We All Looked Up
― We All Looked Up

“I’ve been searching a long time for something I think I lost.
I felt like I found something when I saw you back there.”
― Champion
I felt like I found something when I saw you back there.”
― Champion

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Gemma’s 2022 Year in Books
Take a look at Gemma’s Year in Books. The good, the bad, the long, the short—it’s all here.
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