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Rachel is Currently Reading

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Yeonnam-dong's Smiley Laundromat

by Kim Jiyun

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Nov 03, 2024 03:36AM

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Upgrade

by Blake Crouch (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2024, fiction, review-copy-pansing, thriller

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街とその不確かな壁

by Haruki Murakami

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2023, japanese-literature, murakami, japanese-language

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Rachel’s Quotes

“Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

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“It’s pathetic how we can’t live with the things we can’t understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

45 likes

“So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

tags: emotional, hurt, independence, uniqueness

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“You know what I've learned about money? I was trying to figure out why my life felt more or less the same in Singapore as it did in London, and that's when I realized that money is its own country.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

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“No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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