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“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
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“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Different Seasons
― Different Seasons
“Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn’t it?”
― 11/22/63
― 11/22/63
“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
― 11/22/63
― 11/22/63
“That’s the problem with history, we like to think it’s a book—that we can turn the page and move the fuck on. But history isn’t the paper it’s printed on. It’s memory, and memory is time, emotions, and song. History is the things that stay with you.”
― The Sellout
― The Sellout
Jillian’s 2025 Year in Books
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Biography, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Psychology, Science, Suspense, Sports, and Thriller
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