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How can I describe what it was like during the invasion? We slept in a city bus one night because the bus was barricaded and when we and all the other passengers tried to get off, men from the Dignity Battalions were standing outside the
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“The real question is: How sturdy and solid is the floor our civilization stands on? How many lives with no prospects, shattered and senseless, can it bear the weight of before it cracks somewhere or other, splits at the joints?”
― City of Angels or Overcoat of Dr. Freud
― City of Angels or Overcoat of Dr. Freud
“I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.”
― A Fatal Grace
― A Fatal Grace
“To become oneself, with all one's strength.
Difficult.
A bomb, a speech, a rifle shot-and the world can look a different place. And then where is this "self"?”
― The Quest for Christa T.
Difficult.
A bomb, a speech, a rifle shot-and the world can look a different place. And then where is this "self"?”
― The Quest for Christa T.
“Between killing and dying there's a third way: live”
― Kassandra
― Kassandra
“Etsuko had to go back to the restaurant, but she settled on the sofa for a few minutes. When she had been a young mother there used to be only one time in her waking hours where she’d felt a kind of peace, and that was always after her children went to bed for the night. She longed to see her sons as they were back then: their legs chubby and white, their mushroom haircuts misshapen because they could never sit still at the barber. She wished she could take back the times she had scolded her children just because she was tired. There were so many errors. If life allowed revisions, she would let them stay in their bath a little longer, read them one more story before bed, and fix them another plate of shrimp.”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
Pam’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Pam’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
125 books
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1,241 friends
861 books
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66 friends
1,290 books
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67 friends
107 books
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324 friends
362 books
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178 friends
83 books
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11 friends
7 books
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43 friends
40 books
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46 friends
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