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Mother used to say that it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me.
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
― The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“If only my heart were stone.”
― The Road
― The Road
“The first thing to go was friendship…Suddenly, everyone was too busy, they had to go out and make money.”
― Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
― Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
“In Moscow you can sit in an enormous restaurant where you don’t know anybody and where nobody knows you, and you don’t feel all the same that you’re a stranger. And here you know everybody and everybody knows you, and you’re a stranger... and a lonely stranger.”
― The Three Sisters
― The Three Sisters
“Today, people just want to live their lives, they don’t need some great Idea. This is entirely new for Russia; it’s unprecedented in Russian literature. At heart, we’re built for war. We were always either fighting or preparing to fight. We’ve never known anything else—hence our wartime psychology. Even in civilian life, everything was always militarized. The drums were beating, the banners flying, our hearts leaping out of our chests. People didn’t recognize their own slavery—they even liked being slaves.”
― Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
― Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
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Jordan’s 2025 Year in Books
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