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The great joy of fiction is that no matter how problematic the journey, the resolution is somehow inevitable.
“I’m not just any talking mirror,” Ira says. “I’m a cool talking mirror.”
― Never After: The Broken Mirror
― Never After: The Broken Mirror
“It’s a children’s story.” “So’s the Bible,” Mark said. “But you got people making laws and killing each other over it every day.”
― How to Sell a Haunted House
― How to Sell a Haunted House
“It is not your imagination, she wrote on a third. Most people are awful.”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
“The first pancake is why you have a dog, so you have someone to give it to who appreciate it.”
― Razzmatazz
― Razzmatazz
“There isn’t a person alive who would opt for Rasputin’s bloodletting techniques over the cutting-edge therapies at Sloan Kettering. And yet so many insist we believe these stories and then have the audacity to insist others believe them, too.” “You make a fair point, Evans,” Wakely wrote back. “But people need to believe in something bigger than themselves.” “Why?” Calvin pressed. “What’s wrong with believing in ourselves? Anyway, if stories must be used, why not rely on a fable or fairy tale? Aren’t they just as valid a vehicle for teaching morality? Except maybe better? Because no one has to pretend to believe that the fables and tales are true?”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
Billy’s 2025 Year in Books
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