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Despite the lack of attention it gets – contrast the number of pages a newspaper devotes to politics or finance or travel compared to relationships – there are few things more serious, more important than love. A lack of it can cause so
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“Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. They died so as not to die of embarrassment.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.”
― Play It As It Lays
― Play It As It Lays
“There was silence. Something real was happening: this was, as it were, her life. If she could keep that in mind she would be able to play it through, do the right thing, whatever that meant.”
― Play It As It Lays
― Play It As It Lays
“It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will, is the paralysis that took my heart. A moral freeze: I couldn't decide, I couldn't act, I couldn't comport myself with even a pretense of modest human dignity.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“What would you do?
Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?”
― The Things They Carried
Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?”
― The Things They Carried
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Rachel’s 2025 Year in Books
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