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“I filled and lit my pipe and sat there smoking. Nobody came in, nobody called, nothing happened, nobody cared whether I died or went to El Paso.”
― The High Window
― The High Window
“The line of Tennal's throat was outlined in crimson and blue light thrown from a sign opposite. Surit knew his own tendencies, which had nothing to do with gender and everything to do with people who were lightning strikes on dead land.”
― Ocean's Echo
― Ocean's Echo
“He says you make good coffee and you get up kind of late in the mornings and are apt to run to a very bright line of chatter and that we should believe anything you say, provided we can check it by five independent witnesses.”
― The High Window
― The High Window
“Class is a thing that has a way of dissolving rapidly in alcohol.”
― The High Window
― The High Window
“Out of the apartment houses come women who should be young but have faces like stale beer; men with pulled-down hats and quick eyes that look the street over behind the cupped hand that shields the match flame; worn intellectuals with cigarette coughs and no money in the bank; fly cops with granite faces and unwavering eyes; cokies and coke peddlers; people who look like nothing in particular and know it, and once in a while even men that actually go to work. But they come out early, when the wide cracked sidewalks are empty and still have dew on them.”
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Shann’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shann’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
981 books
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431 books
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580 books
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36 friends
83 books
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