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“It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them .”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“...I long ago gave up defending humanity. It's beyond me on most days to defend myself.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“Because let's talk about power. In the domestic polity, myth dictates that parents are endowed with a disproportionate amount of it. I'm not so sure. Children? They can break our hearts, for a start. They can shame us, they can bankrupt us, and I can personally attest that they can make us wish we were never born. What can we do? Keep them from going to the movies. But how? With what do we back up our prohibitions if the kid heads belligerently for the door? The crude truth is that parents are like governments: We maintain our authority through the threat, overt or implicit, of physical force.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lillyth’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lillyth’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
368 books
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68 friends
401 books
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73 friends
748 books
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37 friends
598 books
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246 friends
1,375 books
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990 friends
152 books
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172 friends
129 books
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21 friends
7 books
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172 friends
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