As far as Kiva could tell, whenever selfish humans encountered a wrenching, life-altering crisis, they embarked on a journey of five distinct stages: Denial. Denial. Denial. Fucking Denial. Oh shit everything is terrible grab what you can
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“But that wouldn’t happen to us. I’d read a book of John Barth’s, The End of the Road, and I’d absorbed its most important lesson. When you have to make a choice, and all else fails, take the one on the left.”
― The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown
― The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown
“Perhaps the only happily ever after is to survive to tell the story”
― Roses and Rot
― Roses and Rot
“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
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Jennifer’s 2025 Year in Books
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