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In 2023, I put on my best millennial-pink blazer—the one I wear for panel discussions—and stood in a line of women all equally psyched to have our photos taken in an adult-sized doll box, as if a moment of visual solidarity could make up
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“What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.”
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“and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.”
― Dubliners
― Dubliners
“A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.
In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?”
― The Handmaid's Tale
In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?”
― The Handmaid's Tale
“I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.”
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.”
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Jordan’s 2025 Year in Books
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