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“No one really wants to be idealized - we want to be seen and accepted and forgiven, and to know that we can be ourselves in our less edifying moments.”
― Conversations on Love
― Conversations on Love
“None of us may want to claim to live life in two parallel lanes but all have many lives, one tucked beneath or right alongside the other. Some lives wait their turn because they haven't been lived at all, while others die before they've lived out their time, and some are waiting to be relived because they haven't been lived enough.”
― Find Me
― Find Me
“when expressing their opinions, the political parties prefer not to take too many risks, in the spirit of trying to please everyone all the time, they say yes, but then again no.”
― Seeing
― Seeing
“Rights aren't abstractions, they continue to exist even when they're not respected.”
― Seeing
― Seeing
“In parallel, he devised a system of underpasses and circuitous routes for Palestinian villagers who were barred from accessing the settler highways cutting through their lands. These were given the benevolent-sounding name of "fabric of life" roads. In private, Israeli officials called the something more honest. Speaking to the US ambassador in Tel Aviv, who summarised the conversation in a diplomatic cable, Israel's deputy defense minister referred to them as "apartheid roads.”
― A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
― A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
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Willem’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Willem’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Fiction, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, Self help, social-justice, and economics
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