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The Academy
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Very cerebral kids didn’t tend to do well at the school, which was aggressively social. The Head of School before Audre used to brag that they were cultivating Tiffin students to be sought-after guests at cocktail parties, though Audre
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“A good bookstore,” Charlie says, “is like an airport where you don’t have to take your shoes off.”
― Book Lovers
― Book Lovers
“I used to dream about, the life I'm living now”
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“Love. In the best of times, it is a dream. In the worst of times, a salvation.”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds
“The last-page ache. The deep breath in after you’ve set the book aside.”
― Book Lovers
― Book Lovers
“Love is what remains when everything else is gone. This is what I should have told my children when we left Texas. What I will tell them tonight. Not that they will understand yet. How could they?
I am forty years old, and I just learned this fundamental truth myself.
Love. In the best of times, it is a dream. In the worst of times, a salvation.
I am in love. There it is. I've written it down. Soon I will say it out loud. To him.
I am in love. As crazy and ridiculous and implausible as it sounds, I am in love. And I am loved in return.
And this-love-gives me the courage I need for today.
The four winds have blown us here, people from all across the country, to the very edge of this great land, and now, at last, we make our stand, fight for what we know to be right. We fight for our American dream, that it will be possible again.
Jack says that I am a warrior and, while I don't believe it, I know this: A warrior believes in an end she can't see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself.
It sounds like motherhood to me.”
― The Four Winds
I am forty years old, and I just learned this fundamental truth myself.
Love. In the best of times, it is a dream. In the worst of times, a salvation.
I am in love. There it is. I've written it down. Soon I will say it out loud. To him.
I am in love. As crazy and ridiculous and implausible as it sounds, I am in love. And I am loved in return.
And this-love-gives me the courage I need for today.
The four winds have blown us here, people from all across the country, to the very edge of this great land, and now, at last, we make our stand, fight for what we know to be right. We fight for our American dream, that it will be possible again.
Jack says that I am a warrior and, while I don't believe it, I know this: A warrior believes in an end she can't see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself.
It sounds like motherhood to me.”
― The Four Winds
Alex’s 2025 Year in Books
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152 books
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