25 books for 2025 Fiction 16 Favorite quote: “Some people keep their heart tucked so deep, they hardly know it’s there. But you, you have always worn it like a second skin.” #2025books#bookworm
25 books for 2025 Graphic novel 5 Favorite quote: “The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions- even when that is exactly what they have announced that they will do.” #bookworm#2025books
25 books for 2025 Fiction 15 Favorite quote: “It was like drinking the feeling of being peaceful. Being peaceful in your mind. Well, not if you have too much, then it’s something else.” #bookworm#2025books
25 books for 2025 Nonfiction 8 Favorite quote: “Broadway - is a very special place. Filled with very special people. People who can sing and dance. Often at the same time. People who need people, and who are, in many ways, the luckiest people in the world.” #bookworm#2025books
25 books for 2025 Fiction 14 Favorite quote: “None of us sees more than a tiny piece of all the world, like we’re looking out a little bitty window. And I saw you through mine, and something inside me said “that’s somebody you oughta know.” #2025books#bookworm
25 books for 2025 Fiction 13 Favorite quote: “I was going to get a good job and then lots of money. And I was going to be happy. Wasn't I?" #bookworm#2025books
25 books for 2025 Graphic Novel 4 Favorite Quote: “That’s what happens when things die. They go away, but you don’t realize all the parts of you that they were holding up until after.” #bookworm#2025books
25 books for 2025 Graphic Novel 3 Favorite quote: “Happiness is a revolution, one that everyone has a right to enjoy. But sometimes you have to work really hard at it. Especially if it doesn’t come naturally.“ #2025books#bookworm
25 books for 2025 Graphic Novel 2 Favorite quote: “Strong-minded women were often subjugated to accusations as a means of control, and most of the accusers of the trials were young, female and powerless.“ #2025books#bookworm
25 Books for 2025 Nonfiction 7 Favorite quote: “Being a parent and not having a flexible work schedule makes it especially clear how our entire parenting culture is built around the assumption that every parent is married, and that in every married couple, one parent will be home full-time.”
25 Books for 2025 Fiction 12 Favorite quote: “Nothing made an animal look less alive than tension leaked from the spine. It was why we worked so hard to pose our taxidermy just right. Too loose or cricked, and you couldn't help but imagine their death." #bookworm#2025books
25 books for 2025 Fiction 11 Favorite quote: “I think there's a natural goodness built into human beings. You know when you've stepped across the line into evil, and it's your life's challenge to try and stay on the right side of that line." #bookworm#2025books
2025 Books Nonfiction 6 Favorite quote: “It’s when those of us who do the work of worry are most exhausted and despondent, when we finally asked for help, then we will be told that we could instead just stop worrying and choose to believe that everything will work out fine.” #bookworm
25 books for 2025 Fiction 10 Favorite quote: “One of the surprises of adulthood has been that, as the years pass, it has become less rather than more clear to me whether I am a good or bad person." #bookworm#2025books
Fiction 9 Favorite quote: “When we sit there though, I feel like we are moths, drawn to the memory of what an oven can do to sad women.” #2025books#bookworm
25 books for 2025 Fiction 8 Favorite quote: "They want to believe that magic is nothing but clever deception, becaue to think it real woud keep them up at night, afraid fo their own existence." #bookworm#2025books
Fiction 7 Favorite quote: “This experience led me to form a hypothesis: perhaps the wisdom of birds resides, not in the individual, but in the flock, the congregation." #bookworm#2025books
25 books for 2025 Fiction 6 Favorite quote: “She had always thought of the future as if it were a blinking neon sign. A miraculous exit, glowing red at the end of a long hallway. She imagined that if she kept walking toward it, that if she put in the time, she might finally reach the future.”
25 books for 2025: Nonfiction 5 Favorite quote: “It is a frailty, but in this frailty there is a strength. The conviction to live in your own mind and not in someone else’s.” #2025books#bookworm
25 books for 2025 Nonfiction 4 Favorite quote: “I wasn’t put on this earth to walk on eggshells…I wear my heart on my sleeve like a grenade.” #2025books#bookworm