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Anyway, I guess I finally know the name of this ship I’m on. I’m aboard the Hail Mary. Not sure what to do with that information.
“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
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“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.”
― Live Your Dreams: Les Brown's Formula and Action Planner for Achieving Success and Happiness
― Live Your Dreams: Les Brown's Formula and Action Planner for Achieving Success and Happiness
“He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.”
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“Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed, what wastes and deserts of the soul a slight attack of influenza brings to view, what precipices and lawns sprinkled with bright flowers a little rise of temperature reveals, what ancient and obdurate oaks are uprooted in us by the act of sickness…it is strange indeed that illness has not taken its place with love and battle and jealousy among the prime themes of literature.”
from her essay, On Being Ill”
― Novels by Virginia Woolf (Study Guide): The Years, to the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway, Orlando: A Biography, Flush: A Biography, Night and Day
from her essay, On Being Ill”
― Novels by Virginia Woolf (Study Guide): The Years, to the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway, Orlando: A Biography, Flush: A Biography, Night and Day
Zach’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Zach’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
442 books
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1,077 friends
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396 books
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145 friends
214 books
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375 books
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113 friends
792 books
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142 friends
1,949 books
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1,783 friends
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