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“We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars)”
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“Then he kissed her. Betsy didn't believe in letting boys kiss you. She thought it was silly to be letting first this boy and then that one kiss you, when it didn't mean a thing. But it was wonderful when Joe Willard kissed her. And it did mean a thing.”
― Betsy and Joe
― Betsy and Joe
“I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.”
― Keeping Faith
― Keeping Faith
“We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.”
― The History of Love
― The History of Love
“And then I remember this morning and I wonder if it really happened or if I dreamed it. It was nice. And weird. And tender. I'm not used to tender. It's a fossil, that word. Conditions changed and it died out. Like the woolly mammoth. It just couldn't live in the same world as dick box. Ho dog. Or wiener cousins.”
― Revolution
― Revolution
Iris’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Iris’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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91 friends
287 books
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253 books
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140 friends
83 books
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2 books
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5 books
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66 friends
35 books
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0 books
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108 friends
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