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“A saying, since a saying arises always from the mouths of adults when a person was just a listening child, was supposed to carry you back there, like a magic trick or a scrap of a story, or something with something else still sticking to it.”
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“Without me to struggle against, without the constant chaos of our first growing season, without the pressure of our impending wedding, he seemed to have found his own steady rhythm. I worked my way into it, looking for the harmony this time, instead of conflict. We found easy joy in working together, becoming real partners, instead of combatants, for the first time.”
― The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love
― The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love
“My Dad was sad that he saw us working so hard on something that was destined to fail.”
― The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love
― The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love
“She turned to me as if I might be again, or even for the first time, her husband and her friend, that these efforts, these manifestations of the ability of the human soul to recover, to begin again, just as the child may innocently invent again the old game so oft invented, were met only with the poor hand and dour face of tragedy.”
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“They stood there two feet apart in all that vale of tears, one man asking another how he was, the other asking how the other was, the one not knowing truly what the world was, the other not knowing either. One nodded to the other now in an expression of understanding without understanding, of saying without breathing a word. And the other nodded back to the other, knowing nothing. Not this new world of terminality and astonishing dismay, of extremity of ruin and exaggeration of misery.”
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Anne’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Anne’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
63 books
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5 friends
593 books
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66 friends
6 books
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30 friends
1,473 books
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119 friends
624 books
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90 friends
135 books
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164 friends
138 books
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11 friends
175 books
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24 friends
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