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Cypher J said:
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Hands down the best short story collection I've read and the best book I've picked up, period. It shot its way to the top of my favorites list upon finishing it, with zero resistance. Every single story here is a winner. Julian K. Jarboe's writing is
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“You have always thought if you opened your mouth in open water you would drown, but if you didn't open your mouth you would suffocate. So here you are, drowning.”
― Open Water
― Open Water
“The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
“If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“I felt like my body was slowly disappearing. First my arms and legs blurred at the edges and vanished, leaving only my trunk, then that, too, started to disappear from the bottom up. I stared at the reflection of my upper half floating in the window, transposed over the city lights, like a photo taken from overlapping negatives. Who are you? asked the man in the glass.”
― At Dusk
― At Dusk
“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 …”
― Pew
― Pew
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Cypher’s 2025 Year in Books
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