“When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
“Your evil is that you cannot be evil. And I shall suffer for it no longer!”
― Interview with the Vampire
― Interview with the Vampire
“Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket.
But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
“My children, who don't know they play on a graveyard.”
― The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset
― The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset
“It's the beautiful thing about youth.
There's a weightlessness that permeates everything because no damning choices have been made, no paths committed to, and the road forking out ahead is pure, unlimited potential.”
― Dark Matter
There's a weightlessness that permeates everything because no damning choices have been made, no paths committed to, and the road forking out ahead is pure, unlimited potential.”
― Dark Matter
David Brooks’s 2025 Year in Books
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