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“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Educated
― Educated
“Autumn leaves don't fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“Fear of the thing,” Maher murmurs, more to himself than to Omeir, “will be more powerful than the thing itself.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.”
― Educated
― Educated
“Repository,” he finally says, “you know this word? A resting place. A text—a book—is a resting place for the memories of people who have lived before. A way for the memory to stay fixed after the soul has traveled on.” His eyes open very widely then, as though he peers into a great darkness. “But books, like people, die. They die in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants. If they are not safeguarded, they go out of the world. And when a book goes out of the world, the memory dies a second death.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
Van’s 2024 Year in Books
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