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“They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.”
― One Good Turn
― One Good Turn
“After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they’d actually made some sort of choice.”
― Little Children
― Little Children
“When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.
Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.”
― The Blind Assassin
Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.”
― The Blind Assassin
“Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines.”
― Cat's Eye
― Cat's Eye
“Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed. Or a month, it makes no difference. So unless we're going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes.”
― The Gun Seller
― The Gun Seller
Erika’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Erika’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Adult Fiction, Art, Book Club, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Psychology, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Travel, Women's Fiction, holocaust, psychological-thriller, spy-thriller, medical, asian-literature, magical-realism, historical-mystery, plays, maritime, anthropology, mythology, german-literature, scandinavian-literature, espionage, legal-thriller, adventure, nordic-noir, pirates, time-travel, realistic-fiction, cozy, and greek-mythology
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