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She was the perfect end to a crappy day, brusque, supercilious and precisely as pleasant as a boil on the sphincter.
“It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too.”
― The Quiet American
― The Quiet American
“But my love had no intentions: it knew the future. All one could do was try to make the future less hard, to break the future gently when it came, and even opium had its value there.”
― The Quiet American
― The Quiet American
“that thirty years of Israel have turned the Palestinians into the new Jews of the earth?”
― The Little Drummer Girl
― The Little Drummer Girl
“He had granted her an early glimpse of the new family she might care to join, knowing that deep down, like most rebels, she was only looking for a better conformity.”
― The Little Drummer Girl
― The Little Drummer Girl
“Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child?”
― The Quiet American
― The Quiet American
Terry’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Terry’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,701 books
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399 friends
30 books
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42 friends
237 books
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76 friends
21 books
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68 friends
241 books
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126 friends
334 books
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4 friends
158 books
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31 friends
82 books
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5 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Book Club, Classics, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Music, Mystery, Politics, Science fiction, Spirituality, and War
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