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“Some days later, I understood what he was trying to say, that getting grown means learning how to work that current: learning when to hold fast, when to drop anchor, when to let it sweep you up.”
― Sing, Unburied, Sing
― Sing, Unburied, Sing
“Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.”
― Cryptonomicon
― Cryptonomicon
“You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.”
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
“Please. Marriage is made of lies. Kind ones, mostly. Omissions. If you give voice to the things you think every day about your spouse, you’d crush them to paste. She never lied. Just never said.”
― Fates and Furies
― Fates and Furies
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Robert’s 2025 Year in Books
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