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“Anyone who's read all of Proust plus The Man withour Qualities is bound t be missing out on a few other titles.”
― A Gate at the Stairs
― A Gate at the Stairs
“Oh no, she was never elitist. She said that far too many women are the accomplices of cruel, indifferent men. They lie for these men. They lie to their own children. Because their fathers treated them exactly the same way. These women always retain some hope that love is hiding behind the cruelty, so that the anguish doesn't drive them mad. Truth is, though, Max, there's no love there.
Max wiped a tear from the corner of his eye.”
― The Little Paris Bookshop
Max wiped a tear from the corner of his eye.”
― The Little Paris Bookshop
“He remembered a version of himself untrammeled by expectation, unimpeded by Ego. He had suffered in the many years since then, seeking to return to that original self, if, in fact, it ever existed. And yet, he was helpless but to regard that unmistakable fear that gripped him in his dream as a sign that his unevenness lent him now to utter incongruity with this specter of past.”
― Sinew of the Social Species
― Sinew of the Social Species
“Considering our backgrounds, I found it a strange irony that Ian and I should meet in central Borneo. Both of us were set in motion by the war in Southeast Asia. Ian enlisted. I left the country several weeks before an FBI agent arrived at my parents' front door.”
― Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo
― Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo
“Government observers, keen on getting the Penan out of the valuable hardwood forests, have claimed that Penan health is poor and that they are malnourished. This is a ploy to get them settled so they can be controlled. Also, it is a source of embarrassment to the governments of Malaysia and Indonesia that in the 1980s, nomadic hunters are still roaming the jungles. This doesn't help the national image of a modern, developing country.”
― Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo
― Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo
Laurie’s 2025 Year in Books
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