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Tobi is Currently Reading

Tobi is currently reading

Finally Comes the Poet: Daring Speech for Proclamation

by Walter Brueggemann

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Jul 02, 2026 09:17AM

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Chosen?: Reading the Bible Amid the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

by Walter Brueggemann

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Jun 12, 2026 08:26AM

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He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

by Shelley Parker-Chan (Goodreads Author)

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Tobi’s Quotes

“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

tags: intelligence

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“He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses

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“Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses

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“What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenhearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

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“She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save only for the glint of them and he could see her throat move in the light and he saw in her face and in her figure something he'd not seen before and the name of that thing was sorrow.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

tags: sorrow

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