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“Harmony, balance, and rhythm. They’re the three things that stay with you your whole life. Without them civilization is out of whack. And that’s why an oarsman, when he goes out in life, he can fight it, he can handle life. That’s what he gets from rowing.”
― The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
― The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
“The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it’s almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which.”
― Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who's Been There
― Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who's Been There
“And if you say 'I love you,' and you mean it, then love makes up for a whole lifetime of mistakes. That's some kind of magic.”
― A Snicker of Magic
― A Snicker of Magic
“I was surrounded by words and stories and dust-speckled light. That's a pretty perfect way to be.”
― A Snicker of Magic
― A Snicker of Magic
“The ability to yield, to bend, to give way, to accommodate, he said, was sometimes a source of strength in men as well as in wood, so long as it was helmed by inner resolve and by principle.”
― The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
― The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Kate’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kate’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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90 friends
77 books
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27 books
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79 friends
157 books
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89 friends
922 books
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169 friends
39 books
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33 books
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232 friends
224 books
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82 friends
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