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“I had grown weary of federal agents and wiseguys, narcs and stings and brain-fried lowlifes, and all the seriousness and pretense we invest in the province of moral invalids.”
― A Morning for Flamingos
― A Morning for Flamingos
“We are the sum total of what we have done and where we have been,”
― Black Cherry Blues
― Black Cherry Blues
“Teach them the quiet verbs of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.”
― The Prince of Tides
― The Prince of Tides
“I had lost innocence,” he concluded as he neared the Southern Terminus at the Mexican border, “but I had found respect—respect for myself, respect for nature, respect for humanity.”
― Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
― Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
“though winning was better, it lacked that brittle sublimity, that slight wisdom one took from a game in which you played with all your heart and your effort fell short. I taught my boys that losing well was a gift, but that winning well was the stuff of authentic manhood. Losing, I told them, was good for your sense of proportion.”
― The Prince of Tides
― The Prince of Tides
Jason’s 2025 Year in Books
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