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Here, indeed, was a formidable sentence—one that was on intimate terms with the comma, and that held the period in healthy disregard.
“Every time you take one path, you must live with the memory of the other: of a life left unchosen. Decide as seems best, one course or the other; each way will have its bitter with its sweet.”
― The Girl in the Tower
― The Girl in the Tower
“The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever.”
― A Christmas Carol
― A Christmas Carol
“Did adults just look at the world and see what they wanted to see, think what they wanted to think? Did evidence and experience mean nothing?”
― The Great Alone
― The Great Alone
“He’s twelve years old, and this summer he learns that people will always choose a simple lie over a complicated truth, because the lie has one unbeatable advantage: the truth always has to stick to what actually happened, whereas the lie just has to be easy to believe.”
― Us Against You
― Us Against You
“The worst thing we know about other people is that we’re dependent upon them. That their actions affect our lives. Not just the people we choose, the people we like, but all the rest of them: the idiots. You who stand in front of us in every line, who can’t drive properly, who like bad television shows and talk too loud in restaurants and whose kids infect our kids with the winter vomiting bug at preschool. You who park badly and steal our jobs and vote for the wrong party. You also influence our lives, every second.”
― Us Against You
― Us Against You
Leif’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Leif’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
696 books
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47 friends
2,192 books
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149 friends
2,296 books
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214 friends
358 books
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26 friends
174 books
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5 friends
7 books
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87 friends
173 books
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32 friends
11 books
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22 friends
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