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Temi
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The heroine, infatuated with romanticism, comes to grief because of it—because of her craving for impossible dreams, her refusal to accept the ordinariness of her life and its limited possibilities for happiness.
“I’ve always liked men who look as if they’re from another time.”
― Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
― Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
“The San Francisco therapist kept telling me I shouldn’t be terrified of creative experimentation.
“I don’t know what’s going to come out of me,” I told her. “It has to be perfect. It has to be irreproachable in every way.”
“Why?” she said.
“To make up for it,” I said. “To make up for the fact that it’s me.”
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“I don’t know what’s going to come out of me,” I told her. “It has to be perfect. It has to be irreproachable in every way.”
“Why?” she said.
“To make up for it,” I said. “To make up for the fact that it’s me.”
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“I alternate between deciding I deserve the world and deciding I deserve nothing.”
― Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
― Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
“Pylades: I’ll take care of you.
Orestes: It’s rotten work.
Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
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Orestes: It’s rotten work.
Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
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“You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me. But if you would return a favorable answer to my offer of myself in marriage, you could draw me to any good – every good – with equal force.”
― Our Mutual Friend
― Our Mutual Friend
Temi’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Temi’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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24 friends
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Favorite Genres
Chick-lit, Christian, Classics, Crime, Fiction, Horror, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Romance, Self help, Suspense, Thriller, and Young-adult
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