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better to miss something you can’t have than think there’s nothing worth missing.”
“The hardest thing to accept about the passage of time is that the people who mattered most to us are all wrapped up in parenthesis”
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“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
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“I ask not for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the one within.”
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But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the one within.”
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“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
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Barbara’s 2024 Year in Books
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