“Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn’t it the secret who’s actually using you?”
― Black Swan Green
― Black Swan Green
“The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense? ”
― Black Swan Green
― Black Swan Green
“Often I think boys don’t become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man’s mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there.”
― Black Swan Green
― Black Swan Green
“Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!”
― Black Swan Green
― Black Swan Green
“Probably" is a word with an emergency ejector seat.”
― Black Swan Green
― Black Swan Green
Annaliese’s 2025 Year in Books
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