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The need to call this thing “good” and this thing “bad,” this thing “white” and this thing “black,” was an impulse that Effia did not understand. In her village, everything was everything. Everything bore the weight of everything else.
“It’s selfish, isn’t it? Spilling out all your wrongdoing like it absolves you of anything. Confessing, crying a little, and then moving on, feeling righteous and smug. Meanwhile, the situation you’ve created still exists, and the only difference is that now other people share the burden.”
― Deadlands
― Deadlands
“Memory sifts. Memory lifts. Memory makes due with what it is given. Memory is not about facts. Memory is an inconsistent measurement of the pain in one’s life.”
― Real Life
― Real Life
“We don't have a plan, we just do our best to get through the day, because there'll be another one coming along tomorrow.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“Some of us never manage to get the chaos under control, so our lives simply carry on, the world spinning through space at two million miles an hour while we bounce about on its surface like so many lost socks.”
― Folk med ångest
― Folk med ångest
“History has failed us, but no matter.”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
Arvand’s 2025 Year in Books
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