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“This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days,the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning.”
― Blue Nights
― Blue Nights
“Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested - ask any doctor - that it is not the most effective anti-anxiety agent yet known.”
― Blue Nights
― Blue Nights
“...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.”
― Blue Nights
― Blue Nights
“I do not know many people who think they have succeeded as parents. Those who do tend to cite the markers that indicate (their own) status in the world: the Stanford degree....Those of us less inclined to compliment ourselves on our parenting skills, in other words most of us, recite rosaries of our failures, our neglects, our derelictions and delinquencies.”
― Blue Nights
― Blue Nights
Cindy’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Cindy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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