“I don't think you realize how strong you are, because sometimes strength isn't swords and steel and fire, as we are so often made to believe. Sometimes it's found in quiet, gentle places.”
― Divine Rivals
― Divine Rivals
“Books turn people into time travelers, shape shifters, body switchers, mind readers, and immortals, and therefore books are the last great alchemy of our age.”
― The Little Village of Book Lovers
― The Little Village of Book Lovers
“Art is what we leave of ourselves in other people.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“Apparently, Marx said that religion was the opium of the masses. It kept the oppressed from complaining or trying to change things.”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
“The people dreamt, and as they dreamt, they believed, and their belief grew into oceans, into sails, into a good, strong wind to carry them toward that land called America. When they arrived, they found more of the same. New hungers. New tyrants. New suffering. Old brutalities. The soil, already dark with blood. But for one brief, suspended moment, there in the liminal breaths between here and there, there was hope.”
― Thistlefoot
― Thistlefoot
Regina’s 2025 Year in Books
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