My Bookshelf

A collection of books I've read over the years and those I plan to read.

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Kaurs Reimagine: Sikh Women Blaze New Trails

by Multiple

Anthology

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The Sirens of Titan

by Kurt Vonnegut

Science Fiction

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"It took us that long to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."
"The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody."

Lemon

by Kwon Yeo-sun

Crime Fiction

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Six of Crows

by Leigh Bardugo

Fantasy

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Blue Ticket

by Sophie Mackintosh

Dystopian Fiction

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"Fear of being banished is an intrinsic human fear, he said. It confirms our status as something other, something unredeemable, which is a suspicion we always have about ourselves."
"But I could not speak my want aloud——could not send it out into the world and see it bruised, shot down, like it was a debate topic. It wasn't something theoretical, it was a tender wordless part of me, and I had no language for it."
"Sometimes my life felt like a faulty experiment. I followed all the instructions and yet I did not turn out to be the person I should have been."

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

by Gabrielle Zevin

Fiction

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"'Mine Sadie. This life is filled with inescapable moral compromises. We should do what we can to avoid the easy ones.'"
"'It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same thigs for the length of out lives.'"
"The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time."

An Introduction to Indian Philosophy

by Satischandra Chatterjee

Philosophy

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