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“Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a small cloud of telepathic butterflies, and one of these brushed the cheek of Dwayne Hoover, nine miles away.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
“It must be nice to be righteous; from where I stand it looks like fucking lunacy.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
“‘Yes, but humans are more important than animals,’ said Brutha.
‘This is a point of view often expressed by humans,’ said Om.”
― Small Gods
‘This is a point of view often expressed by humans,’ said Om.”
― Small Gods
“It’s a popular fact that 90 percent of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. . . . It is used. One of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary, to turn the unusual into the usual. Otherwise, human beings, faced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing a stupid grin, saying “Wow,” a lot. Part of the brain exists to stop this from happening.”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
Ru’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ru’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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9 friends
864 books
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636 books
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807 books
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317 books
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119 books
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179 books
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2 books
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