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She grinned, for no reason other than—Adam was here, with her. And he was smiling. “That’s a lie.”
“The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.”
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“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
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“And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. ”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
Aaliyah’s 2025 Year in Books
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