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“The Irish do have a despairing quality of gaiety, but they have also a dour and brooding ghost that rides on their shoulders and peers in on their thoughts. Let them laugh too loudly, it sticks a long finger down their throats. They condemn themselves before they are charged, and this makes them defensive always.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.”
― Cutting for Stone
― Cutting for Stone
“You don't have to prove anything to anyone anymore. You're good enough.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.”
― Dune
― Dune
“If he silently decides not to say something when they’re talking, Marianne will ask ‘what?’ within one or two seconds. This ‘what?’ question seems to him to contain so much: not just the forensic attentiveness to his silences that allows her to ask in the first place, but a desire for total communication, a sense that anything unsaid is an unwelcome interruption between them.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
Sean’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Sean’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
126 books
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5 friends
36 books
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1 friend
145 books
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6 friends
50 books
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3 friends
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