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4/5⭐️This was an emotional journey, let me tell you! Pheeeeyewww.
Quick introduction…
…It’s 1964 and we have a couple of newlyweds. Husband is a doctor. Wife is pregnant and gives birth during a snowstorm to, surprise, twins. Babies delivered by husba ...more "
“If all you’re trying to do is change who’s in control, then you don’t really want to change anything.”
― The Will of the Many
― The Will of the Many
“It is unpleasant, but this is the world you and I live in, now. Men must be bought or compelled, rather than relied upon to do the right thing.”
― The Strength of the Few
― The Strength of the Few
“The oldest argument for doing something wrong is that everyone is doing it. To dismantle what they have built would have required the agreement of every man who had spent his life building it," agrees my father softly. "It would have required them to give up all they have striven their entire lives to gain. And they would have needed to do it, largely, for the benefit of those at whose expense it originally came.”
― The Strength of the Few
― The Strength of the Few
“A pain promised is often worse than pain itself.”
― The Strength of the Few
― The Strength of the Few
“Ranching was life distilled: birth and death, the hard winter giving way to spring, and spring to the heat and fast black storms of summer. There was a violence in it, a violence you tried in all ways to diminish but a violence you nonetheless had to know and hold. In this tilting world, when so many had gotten away from anything resembling the actual, were living what Rene thought of as supermarket lives, ranching at least kept you close to what mattered, to what was real.”
― The Entire Sky
― The Entire Sky
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