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Nona Williams
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This is no reason not to believe in dreams, it finally occurred to her. They always make sense, they never get it wrong—it’s the real world that doesn’t live up to their perfection.
“Lead levels in American children and adults are seen to be declining rapidly, beginning in 1992. At the same time, the crime rate falls, the largest plunge in recorded history. Epidemiologists superimpose graphs of lead and crime over each other, the lines rising and falling in tandem so closely that a theory is born: the lead–crime hypothesis.[”
― Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
― Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
“At the same time there was something delicate in his face, almost childlike, cosseted, something I couldn’t name but today I know is simply a trait of the upper crust, who are pampered their entire lives.”
― The King of Warsaw
― The King of Warsaw
“Elected officials who believe their own political survival is more important than anything else threaten the survival of our republic, no matter what they tell themselves to justify their cowardice.”
― Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
― Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
“Everyone has a story they tell themselves about themselves. Even if they don’t explicitly acknowledge it, their minds are at work retelling or editing or updating a narrative that explains or excuses why they have spent their time on earth as they have.”
― The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
― The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
“I realise that what seems to matter so much to us in the here and now is nothing in comparison to the sea and the rocks and the turning of the tides; we’re just tiny grains in the sands of time.”
― The Letter
― The Letter
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