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I am prepared, my pack made and my fate awaiting. I could return here, in three days, or nine months, or, if I somehow live that long, in twenty-seven years. I know now, however, that whatever reality I am in, in the end, I carry only
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“For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.”
― 11/22/63
― 11/22/63
“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
“Hearts don't really break. If only they could.”
― 22/11/63
― 22/11/63
“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
― 11/22/63
― 11/22/63
“Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.”
― 11/22/63
― 11/22/63
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Kim’s 2025 Year in Books
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Classics, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Mystery, Non-fiction, Suspense, Thriller, and Travel
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