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“I think we’re officially best friends now,” she says. “Oh yeah? Do you want to go do karate in the garage?”
― Butcher & Blackbird
― Butcher & Blackbird
“Boobs plus murder don’t equal a relationship, Lark. That math ain’t mathin’.”
― Butcher & Blackbird
― Butcher & Blackbird
“I would kill for you, and I have. I would do it again, every damn day. I’d turn myself inside out for you. I would die for you. I don’t just like you, Sloane, and you fucking know it.”
― Butcher & Blackbird
― Butcher & Blackbird
“I didn’t gouge them out, Butcher. I plucked them. Delicately. Like a lady.”
― Butcher & Blackbird
― Butcher & Blackbird
“And yet these Americans, with their helicopters and laser-guided weapons and shock-troop Rangers were going to somehow sort it out in a few weeks? Arrest Aidid and make it all better? They were trying to take down a clan, the most ancient and efficient social organization known to man. Didn’t the Americans realize that for every leader they arrested there were dozens of brothers, cousins, sons, and nephews to take his place? Setbacks just strengthened the clan’s resolve. Even if the Habr Gidr were somehow crippled or destroyed, wouldn’t that just elevate the next most powerful clan? Or did the Americans expect Somalia to suddenly sprout full-fledged Jeffersonian democracy?”
― Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
― Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Brenna’s 2025 Year in Books
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176 books
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348 books
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