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Mike Tannian
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For eventually, we come to hold our dearest possessions more closely than we hold our friends. We carry them from place to place, often at considerable expense and inconvenience; we dust and polish their surfaces and reprimand children for
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“Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one's life will eventually be known to have been one or the other.”
― A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
― A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
“The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather”
― Telling Secrets: A Celebrated Author's Candid Memoir of a Father's Suicide and Its Influence on a Son and Minister
― Telling Secrets: A Celebrated Author's Candid Memoir of a Father's Suicide and Its Influence on a Son and Minister
“It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― The Lost Princess of Oz
― The Lost Princess of Oz
“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”
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Mike Tannian’s 2025 Year in Books
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