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Years crawl by but once they get behind you in a big old stack, it’s amazing how they seem to have done it in the blink of an eye.
“You know what the Chinese think is the saddest feeling in the world? It's for a child to finally grow the desire to take care of his parents, only to realize that they were long gone.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”
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“We realized it was impossible to protect any one place if the place next door was drowning or on fire. We realized the old boundaries weren’t meant to keep the undesirable out, but to hoard resources within. And the hoarders were the core of the problem.”
― Emergency Skin
― Emergency Skin
“We spend our entire lives trying to tell stories about ourselves—they’re the essence of memory. It is how we make living in this unfeeling, accidental universe tolerable.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“What the Leaving proved was that the Earth could sustain billions, if we simply shared resources and responsibilities in a sensible way. What it couldn’t sustain was a handful of hateful, self-important parasites, preying upon and paralyzing everyone else. As soon as those people left, the paralysis ended.”
― Emergency Skin
― Emergency Skin
Jaron’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jaron’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2 books
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27 friends
148 books
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15 friends
2,423 books
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58 friends
379 books
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30 friends
128 books
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29 friends
17 books
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38 friends
91 books
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21 friends
396 books
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24 friends
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