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Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving people rescued me.
“Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving people rescued me.”
― Hillbilly Elegy
― Hillbilly Elegy
“I just wanted reassurance. “Mamaw, does God love us?” She hung her head, gave me a hug, and began to cry.”
― Hillbilly Elegy
― Hillbilly Elegy
“Don’t ’oo call me a Culchie,’ said Parry between his teeth, and ferociously, but he could have said it from between the two cheeks of his arse, and twice as ferociously at that stage of the game, for all I cared. Because I had him weighed up and it was clearly a case of have him now or be persecuted by him for as long as I’d be within reach of him. Now, it was, or never, as the man said; die dog or shite the licence.”
― Borstal Boy
― Borstal Boy
“They want us to be shepherds to these kids. But no one wants to talk about the fact that many of them are raised by wolves.”
― Hillbilly Elegy
― Hillbilly Elegy
“He was a dark man, not very old, and very hard in an English way that tries to be dignified and a member of a master race that would burn a black man alive or put a pregnant woman out the side of the road in the interests of stern duty.”
― Borstal Boy
― Borstal Boy
Alex’s 2025 Year in Books
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