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“We have nothing now between us, save - respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies.”
― Outlander
― Outlander
“And when the abyss looks into you - and it will - may you look back unflinching.”
― Challenger Deep
― Challenger Deep
“And the ghosts walked into my memory, into the happiness, into the pain of my future, and they wished me well. I turned, as though I saw them in the unfolding season, in the beauty and in the death of autumn. Perhaps I had, perhaps I had.”
― Pleasant Day
― Pleasant Day
“Have you ever heard of the theory of relativity?"
Artemis blinked. "Is this a joke? I have traveled through time, Doctor. I think I know a little something about relativity.”
― The Last Guardian
Artemis blinked. "Is this a joke? I have traveled through time, Doctor. I think I know a little something about relativity.”
― The Last Guardian
“Best putdown of a copy editor ever award goes to Raymond Chandler, who, in a 1947 letter to the editor of the Atlantic Monthly, wrote: "By the way, would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of barroom vernacular, this is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.”
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Norman’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Norman’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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35 books
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104 books
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45 books
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80 books
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87 books
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2 friends
34 books
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338 books
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25 friends
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