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I carried Mein Kampf sheepishly to the library circulation desk and brought it home in my backpack. That evening I locked my bedroom door and, lying on my Holly Hobbie bedspread surrounded by stuffed animals, I tried to read the turgid
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“The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.”
― Cabal
― Cabal
“Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
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“I dreamed I spoke in another's language,
I dreamed I lived in another's skin,
I dreamed I was my own beloved,
I dreamed I was a tiger's kin.
I dreamed that Eden lived inside me,
And when I breathed a garden came,
I dreamed I knew all of Creation,
I dreamed I knew the Creator's name.
I dreamed--and this dream was the finest--
That all I dreamed was real and true,
And we would live in joy forever,
You in me, and me in you.”
― Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
I dreamed I lived in another's skin,
I dreamed I was my own beloved,
I dreamed I was a tiger's kin.
I dreamed that Eden lived inside me,
And when I breathed a garden came,
I dreamed I knew all of Creation,
I dreamed I knew the Creator's name.
I dreamed--and this dream was the finest--
That all I dreamed was real and true,
And we would live in joy forever,
You in me, and me in you.”
― Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
“What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines. A lovely eloquence, a calming symmetry; none of that describes this woman’s face. So perhaps I should assume I cannot do it justice with words. Suffice it to say that it would break your heart to see her; and it would mend what was broken in the same moment; and you would be twice what you’d been before.”
― Galilee
― Galilee
Jesse’s 2025 Year in Books
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19 friends
573 books
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231 books
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348 books
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151 books
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9 books
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4 friends
395 books
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73 books
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