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“He knew as deeply as he knew anything that sedation was the prelude to anxiety, stimulation the prelude to exhaustion and consolation the prelude to disappointment, and so he lay on the red velvet sofa and did nothing to distract himself from the news of his mother’s death.”
― At Last
― At Last
“I’ll give you treasure chests full of gold pieces, I know the value of spending time with you.” I”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
“It’s the hardest addiction of all,’ said Patrick. ‘Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, that deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.”
― At Last
― At Last
“He wondered if he could ever make his ego light enough to relax in not having to settle the meaning of things. What would that feel like?”
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“Soon now. They’d win the field soon, and the song in his blood would quiet. Part of him didn’t want it to end, even as his body began to scream to rest. Yet when the battle was done, what would remain? Nothing. Elide had made that clear enough. She loved him, but she hated herself for it. He hadn’t deserved her anyway. She deserved a life of peace, of happiness. He didn’t know such things. Had thought he’d glimpsed them during the months they’d traveled together, before everything went to hell, but now he knew he was not meant for anything like it. But this battlefield, this death-song around him … This, he could do. This, he could savor.”
― Kingdom of Ash
― Kingdom of Ash
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Barbara’s 2025 Year in Books
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404 books
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842 books
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334 books
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496 books
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