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“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
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“Have any of you wondered what I did with all the cash Pekka Rollins gave us?"
"Guns?" asked Jesper.
"Ships?" queried Inej.
"Bombs?" suggested Wylan.
"Political bribes?" offered Nina. They all looked at Matthias. "This is where you tell us how awful we are," she whispered.”
― Crooked Kingdom
"Guns?" asked Jesper.
"Ships?" queried Inej.
"Bombs?" suggested Wylan.
"Political bribes?" offered Nina. They all looked at Matthias. "This is where you tell us how awful we are," she whispered.”
― Crooked Kingdom
“He had seen God in the night sky long before he understood its patterns.”
― The Lieutenant
― The Lieutenant
“Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.”
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“What he had not learned from Latin or Greek he was learning from the people of New South Wales. It was this: you did not learn a language without entering into a relationship with the people who spoke it with you. His friendship with Tagaran was not a list of objects, or the words for things eaten or not eaten, thrown or not thrown. It was the slow constructing of the map of a relationship.”
― The Lieutenant
― The Lieutenant
Jaymie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jaymie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
375 books
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30 friends
280 books
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22 friends
152 books
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19 friends
34 books
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11 friends
1 book
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1 friend
41 books
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6 friends
32 books
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36 friends
8 books
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5 friends
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