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People needed to keep sight of their history to see how they were growing! When would enough be enough and the people figure out
“But as soon as he came through the door, it was clear Che was no ordinary man. He looked exactly like the hundreds of photographs that had appeared in the newspapers: he was dressed in a military uniform with a cigar in his mouth. His long hair and beard gave him a wild and leonine look. What was most impressive about him was his gaze. There was a ferocity and an energy in his eyes that exceeded his mere presence. The guy was boiling inside.”
― The Price of Paradise
― The Price of Paradise
“It was the heart of any true moment of decadence: the knowledge that an epoque is already slipping from us, inexorably, even in the moment of its glory.”
― The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris
― The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris
“The poet Lord Byron famously proclaimed that lobster salad and champagne were the only things a woman should ever be seen eating.”
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“There are still more days to travel in this life. And he knows that the man who makes the journey has been shaped by every day and every person along the way. Scars are just another kind of memory....Soon enough the days will close over their lives, the grass will grow over their graves, until their story is just an unvisited headstone.”
― The Light Between Oceans
― The Light Between Oceans
“was tempted to tell him the truth: “See here, sir, the reason is there’s so much misery in Spain that we have to dunk our bread in puddles, there are no cats left in my town because we’ve eaten all the rats, the Republicans killed my mother because she had a cousin who was a nun hiding in our house, and then the Nationalists killed my father because he refused to bend his knee before a portrait of the caudillo. I have no family left, but I don’t wanna spend the rest of my life breaking my back in the mines, devoured by lice, and I sold my grandmother’s wedding ring—may she rest in peace—so I could buy a third-class ticket on a ship and start from zero, with just the clothes on my back, on the other side of the world. The reason is I wanna survive.”
― The Price of Paradise
― The Price of Paradise
Betty’s 2025 Year in Books
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