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Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.
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“You see the giant and the shepherd in the Valley of Elah and your eye is drawn to the man with the sword and shield and the glittering armor. But so much of what is beautiful and valuable in the world comes from the shepherd, who has more strength and purpose than we ever imagine.”
― David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
― David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
“We think about mortality so little, these days, except to flail hysterically at it with trendy forms of exercise and high-fiber cereals and nicotine patches.”
― In the Woods
― In the Woods
“Well, I tell myself, we call it a gift and we call ourselves gifted, but gifts are never really earned, are they? Only given. Talent is grace made visible.”
― You Like It Darker
― You Like It Darker
“Great events turn on small hinges.”
― The Institute
― The Institute
“we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself.”
― In the Woods
― In the Woods
Martin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Martin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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392 books
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36 friends
450 books
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1,430 books
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146 friends
369 books
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54 friends
1,023 books
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102 friends
35 books
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56 friends
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