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“I have to wonder at what point the people fighting to protect marriage will realize that traditional couples haven’t exactly been doing too good a job of it so far.”
― Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
― Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
“There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.”
― Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
― Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
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“I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy childhood for anybody. Childhood is a very, very tricky business of surviving it. Because if one thing goes wrong or anything goes wrong, and usually something goes wrong, then you are compromised as a human being. You're going to trip over that for a good part of your life.”
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“Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids are. They don’t like what we write for them, what we dish up for them, because it’s vapid, so they’ll go for the hard words, they’ll go for the hard concepts, they’ll go for the stuff where they can learn something. Not didactic things, but passionate things.”
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Maria’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Maria’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,490 books
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118 friends
2,692 books
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70 friends
1,746 books
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182 friends
389 books
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36 friends
119 books
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70 friends
509 books
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82 friends
447 books
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72 friends
121 books
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74 friends
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