“A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.”
― The Beatrice Letters
― The Beatrice Letters
“The worst kind of oppression is when the victims think and talk in the language of their oppressors.”
― LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
― LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
M’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at M’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Classics, Fiction, History, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Travel, and Young-adult
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