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“Ask me, God’s right here. In the dirt, the rain, the sky, the trees, the apples, the stars in the cottonwoods. In you and me, too. It’s all connected and it’s all God. Sure this is hard work, but it’s good work because it’s a part of what connects us to this land, Buck. This beautiful, tender land.”
― This Tender Land
― This Tender Land
“When you suffer, I suffer with you. To the end I am close to you.”
― Silence
― Silence
“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
“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
“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.
120 books
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104 friends
4,159 books
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445 friends
320 books
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116 friends
751 books
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35 friends
1,498 books
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145 friends
657 books
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223 friends
438 books
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1,077 friends
1,395 books
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2,860 friends
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