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“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”
― Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
“Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.”
― Cities of the Plain
― Cities of the Plain
“So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall.”
― The Crossing
― The Crossing
Nicolas’s 2024 Year in Books
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