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It’s hard to tell exactly when a person’s substance abuse begins, which is why everyone is lying when they say: “I’ve got it under control.” Drugs are a sort of dusk that grant us the illusion that we’re the ones who decide when the light
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“By the end of the war there was nothing about men and women that surprised him. Nothing about anything really. The whole edifice of civilization turned out to be constructed from an unstable mix of quicksand and imagination.”
― A God in Ruins
― A God in Ruins
“As soon as she hit the Send button, she had a spasm of remorse; her interval between action and remorse was diminishing so rapidly that soon she might be all remorse, unable to act at all; which might not be such a bad thing.”
― Purity
― Purity
“When you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When you’re angry, everything looks like a target. There are a lot of angry people in the world. And these days, they’re all online.”
― Big Summer
― Big Summer
“I learned for the first time that when we lose the people closest to us, we tend to become more like them—as if to fill immediately the unbearable lack they have left behind.”
― The Moonlight Palace
― The Moonlight Palace
“The thing that really gets me,” she said, “is that the worst kind of man, the kind that you would never allow yourself to be alone with, because you would know he was a danger to you, was left alone with all of us.”
― The Female Persuasion
― The Female Persuasion
Phil’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Phil’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
389 books
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75 friends
2,018 books
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100 friends
173 books
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10 books
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28 friends
141 books
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107 friends
1,063 books
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170 friends
132 books
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95 friends
1,873 books
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