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“Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession. It cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant.”
― The Witch of Portobello
― The Witch of Portobello
“There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.”
― Her Fearful Symmetry
― Her Fearful Symmetry
“I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.”
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“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
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“Why, then, is it so crucial to have ethnographies of urban policing? The answer to this question certainly becomes clearer now. It is not simply that ethnography provides a sort of immersion in the world of law enforcement, allowing us to understand what happens when the police are in the field. It is perhaps more importantly that it produces a vision of a world that has been made either invisible or opaque to most of us.”
― Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing
― Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing
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Hannah’s 2025 Year in Books
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