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“one does not have to become worms first but can change directly into a human being”
― The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
― The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
“Once when I looked up, I happened to see a sea eagle poised on magisterial wings above the knurled summit of the mountain behind my tent. It was a scene of peerless tranquility, tossed out in Nature's devil-may-care way, which says: Just open your eyes, my friend, and I'll astonish you every minute of your life.”
― Last Places: A Journey in the North
― Last Places: A Journey in the North
“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”
― Te-Tao Ching
― Te-Tao Ching
“...there were only fifteen thousand polar bears in the world, and five billion of me. To let one of them devour my all-too-common flesh would, if only slightly, help adjust the grievous imbalance.”
― Last Places: A Journey in the North
― Last Places: A Journey in the North
ryan’s 2025 Year in Books
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