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“The King's shadow doesn't disappear altogether. I've learned that we all live with it, each in our own way.
Some people live huddled under the King's wings. I decided to confront him. Sometimes I'm amazed. The attacks scare me, they wound me, but they bring with them the memory of the things I've lived, the things I've learned.
My wound is also my cure.”
― Ye
Some people live huddled under the King's wings. I decided to confront him. Sometimes I'm amazed. The attacks scare me, they wound me, but they bring with them the memory of the things I've lived, the things I've learned.
My wound is also my cure.”
― Ye
“This suggests that most European-Americans remained lost over the centuries, lost not in practical terms but in the more profound sense of apprehending where they truly were, of caring what the history of the place was and its nature. Instead, they named it after the places they had left and tried to reconstruct those places through imported plants, animals, and practices, though pumpkin, maple, and other staples would enter their diet as words like Connecticut and Dakota and raccoon would enter their vocabularies.”
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“I think sometimes that I became a historian because I didn't have a history, but also because I was interested in telling the truth in a family in which truth was an elusive entity.”
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“In dreams, nothing is lost. Childhood homes, the dead, lost toys all appear with a vividness your waking mind could not achieve. Nothing is lost but you yourself, wanderer in a terrain where even the most familiar places aren't quite themselves and open onto the impossible.”
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“...it's okay to sometimes experience not knowing what to do next, to run into a barrier. It's okay to realize that life has a mysterious quality to it, it has an element of uncertainty, it's okay to realize that we do need help, that calling out for help is a very generous act because it allows others to help us and it allows us to be helped. Sometimes we're calling out for help. Sometimes we're offering hep, and then this hostile world becomes a very different place. It is a world where there is help being received and help being given, and in such a world this compelling determined world according to me loses some of its urgency and desperation. It's not so necessary in a generous world, in a world where help is available, to be so adamant about the world according to me.”
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Erin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Erin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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27 friends
593 books
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380 books
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780 books
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908 books
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1,446 books
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525 books
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268 books
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