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"I'm finally taking on this epically long classic. You need a side notebook to jot down all the names introduced in the first chapters to keep all the names straight." — Feb 27, 2025 09:58AM
"I'm finally taking on this epically long classic. You need a side notebook to jot down all the names introduced in the first chapters to keep all the names straight." — Feb 27, 2025 09:58AM
The brain abets the eye; eventually your expectations of a thing supersede the thing itself.
“Why would you ever cut the blooms off the rosebush?
It was one of the only truly useful things she ever taught me: Stress stimulates growth. Sometimes, in order to make something develop in the right direction, you have to hurt it.”
― The Echo Wife
It was one of the only truly useful things she ever taught me: Stress stimulates growth. Sometimes, in order to make something develop in the right direction, you have to hurt it.”
― The Echo Wife
“Intelligence evolves to gives us an advantage over the other animals on our planet. But evolution is lazy. Once a problem is solved, the trait stops evolving.”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
“Nothing hinders a good investigation more than trying to affix moral labels such as good or bad, right or wrong, to the actions or actors in the mystery you are trying to solve.”
― Thieves of Baghdad: One Marine's Passion to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasures
― Thieves of Baghdad: One Marine's Passion to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasures
“You can’t tiptoe around your heart in fear of pissing people off or hurting their feelings. Sometimes we need to be a little selfish in order to avoid a life of complacency.”
― Still Beating
― Still Beating
“I had gotten through the previous year of impossibly hellish obstacles. I had survived the discovery and the betrayal and the fallout. I could handle this banquet.”
― The Echo Wife
― The Echo Wife
Christilee’s 2025 Year in Books
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