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“You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn't care. I guess that's what's scariest: not caring about the loss.”
― Player One: What Is to Become of Us
― Player One: What Is to Become of Us
“If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up”
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“One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many lives you know nothing about. The breeze lifting a blue curtain in a doorway billows just the same whether you are lucky enough to observe it or not. Travel gives such jolts. I could live in this town, so how is it that I've never been here before today?”
― A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller
― A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller
“If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.”
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“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
Allison’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Allison’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Adult Fiction, Book Club, Chick-lit, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Memoir, Travel, and Young-adult
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