“If God is an author and the universe is the biggest novel ever written, I may feel as if I'm the lead character in the story, but like every man and woman on Earth, I am a suporting player in one of billions of subplots. You know what happens to supporting players. Too often they are killed off in chapter 3, or in chapter 10, or in chapter 35. A supporting player always has to be looking over his shoulder.”
― Life Expectancy
― Life Expectancy
“A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse”
― Odd Thomas
― Odd Thomas
“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”
― Fear Nothing
― Fear Nothing
“Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”
― Bag of Bones
― Bag of Bones
Mary’s 2025 Year in Books
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