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“The truth is, if we don’t write our own stories, there is someone else waiting to do it for us. And those people, waiting with their pens, often don’t look like we do and don’t have our best interests in mind.”
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
“It's in the spirit of male loneliness to imagine that someone has to suffer for it.”
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays
“Time would not care if you fell out of it. It would continue on without you. It cannot see you; it has always been blind to the human and the things we do to stave it off, the taxonomies, the cleaning, the arranging, the ordering.”
― Florida
― Florida
“Hasn’t that always been the way of it? We all choose our sins, and their measure. The ones we believe will render us unforgivable, and the ones that we will wash off with a morning prayer.”
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
“I have been thinking, then, about the value of optimism while cities burn, while people are fearing for their lives and the lives of their loved ones, while discourse is reduced to laughing through a chorus of anxiety. A woman in a Cape Cod diner the day after Christmas saw me eyeing the news and shaking my head. She told me that “things will get better,” and I wasn’t sure they would, but I nodded and said, “They surely can’t get any worse,” which is the lie that we all tell, the one that we want to believe, even as there are jaws opening before us.”
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
sk :)’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at sk :)’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
375 books
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29 friends
485 books
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34 friends
133 books
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11 friends
281 books
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10 friends
222 books
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20 friends
1,589 books
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40 friends
323 books
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22 friends
40 books
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5 friends
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Favorite Genres
Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Poetry, Suspense, and Thriller
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