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“What mattered was that she appreciated the value of literature. When some idiot politician or finger-wagging do-gooder complained about the books on school reading lists because they dared to treat adolescents with respect, or acknowledge that issues of race, sexuality, and gender might be of some relevance to them as they strode the path to adulthood, he would always make the same remark: “It’s not the people who read books you have to worry about, but the people who don’t.”
― The Land of Lost Things
― The Land of Lost Things
“You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor anything. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose…. That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself? Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the light of sunrise and sunset, to buy safety for yourself—safety forever? That”
― The Farthest Shore
― The Farthest Shore
Ronnie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ronnie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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980 friends
1,208 books
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340 friends
1,893 books
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35 friends
501 books
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22 friends
411 books
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296 friends
3,753 books
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2,692 friends
1,096 books
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26 friends
540 books
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26 friends
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