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We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.
“He tried to sleep. Sleep was a vehicle for passing the time, for avoiding the present. It was a trolley for the depressed, the impatient, and the dying. Donald was all three.”
― Dust
― Dust
“It takes a lifetime of evil to be a villain, and only one moment of good to be a hero.”
― Never Die
― Never Die
“master of alternatives, the eternal custodian of Plan B;”
― Memory
― Memory
“He turned reluctantly, driven away by the cold, but still listening until he passed into noisy spring again and found his way back home. He took the silence with him, though; he heard it in his dreams, where a part of him waited patiently for the ancient dreamers to speak a word as old and slow as stone.”
― Od Magic
― Od Magic
“The West, one could pithily summarise, is bright; it not only brings with it the illumination of the Enlightenment, but also lights up every street, every town, every room with dazzling lamps, so that every single object will for evermore be sharp and delineated. The East, conversely, prefers to allow things to emerge only vaguely from the background, to hold their mutability and fragmentariness as their defining qualities, so that it would be considered the peak of aesthetic experience to catch only a glimmer of an object. How vulgar the clearly visible object that pretends it could exist independently of its context; how glorious the twilight that strips away the substance of things, their unanswerable persuasive power, their obvious worldliness.”
― The Pine Islands
― The Pine Islands
Chad’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Chad’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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227 books
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190 books
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