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“Two or three times a year, set aside four days, away from work, family, and technology, to check in with yourself, gain perspective, daydream, and evaluate your life.”
― Let's Talk: ...About Making Your Life Exciting, Easier, And Exceptional
― Let's Talk: ...About Making Your Life Exciting, Easier, And Exceptional
“These are universals, as is the fear women feel during times of political upheaval that occur in what could still be called the outside world of men--whether during the Taiping Rebellion so many years ago or today for women in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Sudan, or even right here in this country in the post-9/11 era. On the surface, we as American women are independent, free, and mobile, but at our cores we still long for love, friendship, happiness, tranquility, and to be heard.”
― Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
― Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
“The sweet girl in Madrid... It probably wouldn't have worked. The divide was too wide. Memories are hungry, tesoro. You musn't feed them. I'd hate to think that a teenage fling might leave you alone for the rest of your life.”
― The Fountains of Silence
― The Fountains of Silence
“Fact, I specks his mammy hatched him!”
― Roots: The Saga of an American Family
― Roots: The Saga of an American Family
“Most are desperate boys yearning to salve a deep wound. Insignificance. Worthlessness. Social invisibility. This boy has dreamed and prayed, for so long, of someone loving him, noticing him, above all respecting him. Not that he deserves it. He sure doesn’t respect himself. When hope runs dry, prayers unanswered, a fraction of these boys kill themselves. That ends the pain but doesn’t mend the wound. Suicide confirms their pathetic status. But a thunderstroke, desolation of a community, shock across the country—that rates awe. Respect. He is heralded as a mastermind. Everything he craved.”
― Columbine
― Columbine
Irving’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Irving’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
63 books
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11 friends
33 books
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31 friends
5 books
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18 friends
Favorite Genres
Paranormal and Poetry
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