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And I had my first oyster. Now, this was a truly significant event. I remember it like I remember losing my virginity — and in many ways, more fondly.
“Sometimes God wills for one of his children to experience human wickedness so that he will emerge stronger and nobler than ever.”
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“One man’s feeling is not always equal to all life is. Sometimes it’s not equal to anything much at all.”
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North
“Why are we so attached to the severities of the past? Why are we so proud of having endured our fathers and our mothers, the fireless days and the meatless days, the cold winters and the sharp tongues? It's not as if we had a choice.”
― Wolf Hall
― Wolf Hall
“Dorrigo Evans hated virtue, hated virtue being admired, hated people who pretended he had virtue or pretended to virtue themselves. And the more he was accused of virtue as he grew older, the more he hated it. He did not believe in virtue. Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause.”
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North
“My disgraceful, wicked heart, thought Amy, is braver than the world. For a moment it seemed to Amy that there was nothing in the world she could not meet and vanquish. And though she knew this to be the most foolish idea, it excited and emboldened her further.”
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Jackson’s 2025 Year in Books
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990 books
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494 books
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