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“Sometimes to discover a solution is to forget the problem.”
― Man in the Empty Suit
― Man in the Empty Suit
“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
― Four Quartets
And next year's words await another voice.”
― Four Quartets
“If we place the books randomly, how are they ever found again?'
She smiled. "The books just seem to know to go where they'll be found.”
― Man in the Empty Suit
She smiled. "The books just seem to know to go where they'll be found.”
― Man in the Empty Suit
“If I'd stopped to think about the strangeness of this, I might have fallen into old habits, old needs to piece together the puzzle. I decided that here was a puzzle that simply didn't matter to me. Here was something I didn't understand, a mystery I would leave behind me unsolved.”
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Tess’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Tess’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Favorite Genres
Art, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Mystery, Poetry, Romance, Suspense, Thriller, Travel, and Young-adult
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