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“Sometimes I think I might be writing a letter to sleep, that I might be asking him if he remembers me, if he ever plans on coming back. I've received no word from death's brother.”
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“Sarat smiled at the thought. "You couldn't just let us kill ourselves in peace, could you?"
"Come now," said Yousef. "Everyone fights an American war.”
― American War
"Come now," said Yousef. "Everyone fights an American war.”
― American War
“It’s always seemed to me—and as I get older, I feel this even more intensely—that kindness to other people comes with its own reward. It can be immediately felt. And the only thing I can see that a belief in divinity makes possible in this world is a right toward cruelty—the belief in an afterlife being the real life … not here. People need a sense of righteousness to take things from others … to carry out violence. Divinity gives them that. It creates the reins for cruelty …”
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“The human mind is so easily bent, and so uneasily smoothed.”
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“If you ever need to—and I hope you never need to, but a person cannot be sure—if you ever need to sleep, if you are ever so tired that you feel nothing but the animal weight of your bones, and you’re walking along a dark road with no one, and you’re not sure how long you’ve been walking, and you keep looking down at your hands and not recognizing them, and you keep catching a reflection in darkened windows and not recognizing that reflection, and all you know is the desire to sleep, and all you have is no place to sleep, one thing you can do is look for a church.”
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probably definitely the best book club ever
— 5 members
— last activity Sep 22, 2008 04:55PM
molly and lauren and maybe susan and jess
Molly’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Molly’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
429 books
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44 friends
595 books
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5 friends
265 books
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14 friends
1,120 books
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96 friends
395 books
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114 friends
3,135 books
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148 friends
1,977 books
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1,244 friends
3,833 books
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340 friends
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