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My life is pending, suspended. It swings from letter to letter. When one arrives, I soar for a week straight. Over the next week, I come down slowly. Once back on the ground I fear the worst.
“Art is what we leave of ourselves in other people.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“Imagination is a child’s only weapon.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“It reminded me, that when we know about suffering, when we are proximal to it, we are capable of extraordinary generosity. We can do and be so much for each other. But only when we see one another in our full humanity. Not as statistics or problems, but as people who deserve to be alive in the world.”
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
“We won’t grow old together, Cyrus. But can’t you feel this mattering? He could feel it, he realized. He wished he’d said that.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“What distinguishes grace from everything else? Grace is unearned. If you’ve moved through the world in such a way as to feel you’ve earned cosmic compensation, then what you’ve earned is something more like justice, like propriety. Not grace. Propriety is correct. Justice is just. There’s an inescapable transactional quality: perform x good, receive y reward. Grace doesn’t work that way. It begins with the reward. Goodness never enters the equation.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
brooke’s 2025 Year in Books
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38 books
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8 friends
131 books
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24 friends
213 books
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705 books
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40 books
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250 books
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30 friends
869 books
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59 friends
770 books
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21 friends
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