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“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“if religious people are going to be blamed for all the intolerance, then non-religious people simply have no right to be intolerant themselves.”
― Superior Justice
― Superior Justice
“British Columbia has been described as a banana republic, only with bigger bananas,”
― The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
― The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Angela's Ashes
― Angela's Ashes
“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
Ien’s 2025 Year in Books
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