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“Laurel could not see her face but only the back of her neck, the most vulnerable part of anybody, and she thought: Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?”
― The Optimist's Daughter
― The Optimist's Daughter
“What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.”
― Lit
― Lit
“Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.”
― The Pursuit of Love
― The Pursuit of Love
“The instant of petrified violence that sometimes foreruns a summer storm saturated the hushed yard, and in the unearthly tinseled light rusty buckets of trailing fern which were strung round the porch like party lanterns appeared illuminated by a faint green inward flame.”
― Other Voices, Other Rooms
― Other Voices, Other Rooms
“She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism but she was unable to shape her fate to the dimensions of her amorous vocation, so it was lived out as something flat and gray trapped between her mother's sickroom walls, wretched tenements, and the tortured confessions with which this large, opulent, hot-blooded woman made for maternity, abundance, action, and ardor- was consuming herself.”
― The House of the Spirits
― The House of the Spirits
Katy’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Katy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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160 friends
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725 books
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871 books
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124 friends
869 books
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165 friends
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