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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

by Olga Tokarczuk

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Dec 16, 2024 04:08AM

“I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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“I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

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“And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we admire and want to help along. And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

tags: choices-and-consequences, love-and-loss, unrequited-love

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“Why did you make me?" you said.

"I made you so that I could love you," I said.”
― Karin Tidbeck, Jagannath

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“no point whatsoever meeting catastrophe with reason when what was needed was our prophets deranged and coming towards us wild-eyed and smeared with shit, ringing a bell, seer and sinner at once while speaking some language from the edge of reason whose message would translate into plain words as we’re fucked well and truly fucked”
― Mike McCormack, Solar Bones

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