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Six years ago, or maybe it was seven, it don’t matter, this guy Joe took out a fifteen-year-old kid on his way to school. Was the kid a bad person? No. In fact he was an honor student. But someone wanted to send the kid’s dad a message. The
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“It occurred to me that the man I really wanted to hurt was safely out of my reach, standing behind a shield of years.”
― Rage
― Rage
“Everything but "I LOVE YOU" is small talk.”
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“What I know now is that gallant young men rarely get pussy. Put it on a sampler and hang it in your kitchen.”
― Joyland
― Joyland
“Even when lightning flashes inside them... we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, next pain, next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.”
― Bag of Bones
― Bag of Bones
“On a very hot day in August of 1994, my wife told me she was going down to the Derry Rite Aid to pick up a refill on her sinus medicine prescription - this is stuff you can buy over the counter these days, I believe. I’d finished writing for the day and offered to pick it up for her. She said thanks, but she wanted to get a piece of fish at the supermarket next door anyway; two birds with one stone and all that. She blew a kiss at me off the palm of her and and went out. The next time I saw her, she was on TV. That’s how you identify the dead here in Derry - no walking down a subterranean corridor with green tiles on the walls and long fluorescent bars overhead, no naked body rolling out of a chilly drawer on casters; you just go into an office marked PRIVATE and look at a TV screen and say yep or nope.”
― Bag of Bones
― Bag of Bones
Elizabeth’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Elizabeth’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
140 books
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31 friends
941 books
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159 friends
120 books
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64 friends
301 books
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4 friends
26 books
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46 friends
480 books
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430 friends
463 books
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262 friends
1,082 books
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43 friends
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