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“And then sometimes we become one of those people and are amazed, not by our own strength but by that indomitable ability to slog through adversity, which looks like strength from the outside and just feels like every day when it’s happening to you.”
― Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life
― Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life
“...truthfully we were alone only in the ways Westerners speak of being alone in Africa, as if the few hundred locals by whom they are almost always surrounded are part of the landscape, instead of part of humanity.”
― Leaving Before the Rains Come
― Leaving Before the Rains Come
“Bloody dogs,” Dad said, kicking indiscriminately under the table. He put his revolver next to his side-plate. Mum put her Uzi on an empty chair beside her. “Safety on?” Dad always asked. “Those things are liable to go off at the touch of a gnat’s testicle.”
― Leaving Before the Rains Come
― Leaving Before the Rains Come
“I wish that every day was Saturday and every month was October.”
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“to a surprising conclusion about this moment in our lives. No, it’s not that there are weird freckly spots on the back of our hands, although there are, or that construction guys don’t make smutty comments as we pass, although they don’t. It’s that we’ve done a pretty good job of becoming ourselves, and that this is, in so many ways, the time of our lives. As Carly Simon once sang, “These are the good old days.” Lots of candles, plenty of cake. I wouldn’t be twenty-five again on a bet, or even forty.”
― Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life
― Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life
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Tracey’s 2025 Year in Books
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