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Derek LaPlaca
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“Name none of the fallen, for they stood in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living.”
― Deadhouse Gates
― Deadhouse Gates
“Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.”
― Midnight Tides
― Midnight Tides
“Ah, Fist, it’s the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.”
― Deadhouse Gates
― Deadhouse Gates
“Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.”
― House of Chains
― House of Chains
“Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all feelings. Grief isolates, and every ritual, every gesture, every embrace, is a hopeless effort to break through that isolation.
None of it works. The forms crumble and dissolve.
To face death is to stand alone.”
― Toll the Hounds
None of it works. The forms crumble and dissolve.
To face death is to stand alone.”
― Toll the Hounds
Derek’s 2025 Year in Books
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5,211 books
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429 books
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41 books
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2,961 books
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754 books
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1,124 books
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1,272 books
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