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Your vulnerable feet would suddenly tingle. And the tingle’d run up your spine into your shoulders into your hair. That feeling. Fear and joy. Irritation without mark. A nauseating, awful, pleasurable longing. Like craving a cigarette
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“I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.”
― Jacob's Room
― Jacob's Room
“When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitudes and latitudes. Just as, she supposed, it is hard to have a sense of the vastness inside any one person. But once you sense that vastness, once something reveals it, hope emerges, whether you want it to or not, and it clings to you as stubbornly as lichen clings to rock.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“It feels powerful to him to put an experience down in words, like he's trapping it in a jar and it can never fully leave him.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Michael’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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26 friends
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447 books
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287 books
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126 books
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210 books
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211 friends
86 books
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23 books
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78 friends
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