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Despite multiple studies demonstrating that experts couldn’t hear any difference – and that he’d be auditioning behind a screen – Edwin had his eyes on a $20,000 golden flute,
“Anyways, the secret is, always fix their attention *away* from where the slippery stuff's going on. That's the first law of magic, Specs. Misdirection. Never forget it.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions.”
― So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
― So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
“Across her face there seemed to pass many feelings and reflections: it was as if she ached to touch and gather in and make whole those scattered years of change. But how can time be gathered in and kissed? There is only flesh.”
― That They May Face the Rising Sun
― That They May Face the Rising Sun
“The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.”
― Cold Comfort Farm
― Cold Comfort Farm
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Maura’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Maura’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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