RIFSHA. Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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"how much of filial responsibility is merely worrying about your parents' loneliness?" — dur e aziz amna, american fever

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Our educational system tells us that we can all be big-ass winners. It hasn't told us about the gutters or the suicides or the terror of one person aching in one place alone, untouched, unspoken. - Charles Bukowski (Book: Love Is a Dog from Hell)

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“The reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.” —William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

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Because numbers alone couldn’t count what Tain Hu had meant to her. She was one life on paper and yet a universe to Barhu. -Seth Dickinson, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant

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“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...” ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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Maybe I still haven't become me. I don’t know how you tell for sure when you finally are. Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

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“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.” — Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

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Unhealthy love is two people stoking a shared fantasy of desperate beauty, weaponizing passion and desire. Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

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I wanted her carefreeness, her casualness, her freedom that wasn’t the result of a hard-won battle, but simply a fact of life. I knew perfectly well that, whatever my existence was or would become, I would never be like her. Négar Djavadi, Disoriental