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Over and over and over it made the same sounds, yet never quite the same. It never rested.
“I had never seen a white man filled with such fear. The remarkable truth, however, was that it was not the pistol, but my language, the fact that I didn’t conform to his expectations, that I could read, that had so disturbed and frightened him.”
― James
― James
“If you're not making mistakes, you're not learning.”
― James
― James
“At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn’t even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive.”
― James
― James
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Nothing You Don't Already Know
― Nothing You Don't Already Know
“I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell: and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
Abigail’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Abigail’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
325 books
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1 friend
996 books
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2,798 friends
138 books
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12 friends
53 books
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120 friends
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