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“When I'm hung-over I try to imagine being old and look- ing back fondly on now, on this bit I'm currently living, and how in retrospect it might seem adventurous. In the future when I only ever sit in a chair because I'm too gnarled for pleasure or movement I'll remember when I stayed out all night and had life-changing conversations and walked all the way home because I lost my phone.”
― Weirdo
― Weirdo
“The natives who saw him walking alone, and later brought him back to the town for burial, said he was whistling when he went. Being simple peasants, growers of yams and cassava, they did not know what the whistling was. It was a tune called "Spanish Harlem.”
― The Dogs of War
― The Dogs of War
“¡Don’t tell me what to think, niña malcriada! And, you—” Don Gabriel pointed at Marco, “Stop filling my daughter’s head with nonsense.”
― A Delicate Marriage
― A Delicate Marriage
“Dying could be a bit of a problem, but not if you had really lived. Dying needed a certain amount of preparation and the only preparation for dying was real living,”
― Mister God, This is Anna: An Inspirational True Story and Christian Memoir of Faith and Innocence
― Mister God, This is Anna: An Inspirational True Story and Christian Memoir of Faith and Innocence
Val’s 2025 Year in Books
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Books I Became So Obsessed With I Stopped Everything Else in My Life to Finish.
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