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“When you suffer, I suffer with you. To the end I am close to you.”
― Silence
― Silence
“People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
“The worst was yet to come, he knew. Already he could feel a world of trouble waiting for him behind the next door, but the worst that could have happened was also already behind him; the thing not done, which could have been – which he would have had to live with for the rest of his life.”
― Small Things Like These
― Small Things Like These
“If we were perfect, the light he shines on us would just bounce right off. But the wrinkles, they catch the light. And the cracks, that’s how the light gets inside us. When I pray, Odie, I never pray for perfection. I pray for forgiveness, because it’s the one prayer I know will always be answered.”
― This Tender Land
― This Tender Land
“He thought of Mrs Wilson, of her daily kindnesses, of how she had corrected and encouraged him, of the small things she had said and done and had refused to do and say and what she must have known, the things which, when added up, amounted to a life. Had it not been for her, his mother might very well have wound up in that place. In an earlier time, it could have been his own mother he was saving – if saving was what this could be called. And only God knew what would have happened to him, where he might have ended up.”
― Small Things Like These
― Small Things Like These
Chris’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Chris’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
439 books
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1,077 friends
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445 friends
320 books
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116 friends
1,395 books
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377 books
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51 friends
657 books
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224 friends
120 books
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104 friends
2,354 books
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206 friends
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