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“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”
― Looking Forward
― Looking Forward
“My heart started racing, not the bad kind of heart racing, like I'm going to die. But the good kind of heart racing, like, Hello, can I help you with something? If not, please step aside because I'm about to kick the shit out of life.”
― Where'd You Go, Bernadette
― Where'd You Go, Bernadette
“The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us are endowed with the powers of fantasy, the dullest of dullards among us has the gift of dreams at night - visions and yearnings and hopes. Everyone can also think; it is the quality thought that makes the difference - not just the quality of logical thinking, but of imaginative thinking. And our greatest thinkers, those who have radically changed our world, have always arrived at their truths by dreaming them; they are first fantasized, and only then subjected to proof.”
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“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King
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Amanda’s 2025 Year in Books
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Adult Fiction, Art, Biography, Book Club, Comics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Cooking, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Food, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Manga, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Psychology, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, Sports, Thriller, Travel, and Young-adult
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