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“Science has taught me that everything is more complicated than we first assume, and that being able to derive happiness from discovery is a recipe for a beautiful life. It has also convinced me that carefully writing everything down is the only real defense we have against forgetting something important that once was and is no more, including the spruce tree that should have outlived me but did not.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“Each beginning is the end of a waiting. We are each given exactly one chance to be. Each of us is both impossible and inevitable. Every replete tree was first a seed that waited.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”
― Go Set a Watchman
― Go Set a Watchman
“After all, what can a first impression tell us about someone we’ve just met for a minute in the lobby of a hotel? For that matter, what can a first impression tell us about anyone? Why, no more than a chord can tell us about Beethoven, or a brushstroke about Botticelli. By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration—and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them in every possible setting at every possible hour.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
Ayesha’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ayesha’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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112 friends
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1,920 books
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211 friends
238 books
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301 books
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2 books
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28 books
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1 book
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16 friends
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