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Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one.
“Time heals all wounds, they say. I’m here to tell you that time can wound you all on its own. In a long life, there is a singular moment when you know you’ve made more memories than any new ones you’ll ever make. That’s the moment your truest stories—the ones that made you the you that you became—are ever more in the front of your mind, as you begin to reach back for the you that you deemed best. So”
― West with Giraffes
― West with Giraffes
“A long marriage is complicated. So complicated, in fact, that most people in one sometimes ask themselves: 'Am I still married because I'm in love, or just because I can't be bothered to let anyone else get to know me this well again?”
― Beartown
― Beartown
“I believe that most small towns wear two faces: a public one comprised of verifiable facts involving historical timelines, demographics, matters of economy and geography; and a hidden, considerably more private face formed by a fragile spiderweb of stories, memories, rumors, and secrets passed down from generation to generation, whispered by those who know the town best.”
― Chasing the Boogeyman
― Chasing the Boogeyman
“During the darkest days, a saying took hold in Kansas: “there is no god west of Salina.”
― Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
― Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
“No, no, I’m just fucking with you. They all lived happily ever after. Seriously.”
― Redshirts
― Redshirts
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