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Lindsey Leitera is currently reading

The Books of Jacob

by Olga Tokarczuk

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Apr 18, 2026 07:46PM

“to live in this world

you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go”
― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One

tags: excerpt-from-in-blackwater-woods, poem, poetry

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“It was my opinion (then and now) that two people who love each other need not necessarily have the same dreams and aspirations, but they damn well ought to share the same nightmares.”
― Richard Russo, Straight Man

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“The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement--but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.”
― Joseph Conrad

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“But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them. I had to do the work first, not knowing.”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver

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“I’m not sure it is possible to describe just how hard it is to acquire a reputation as a drunk in Russia.”
― David Remnick, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire

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