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Allie
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“He wandered among the tanks for a long time, and often came back with her to the laboratory and the aquaria, submitting his physicist’s arrogance to those small strange lives, to the existence of beings to whom the present is eternal, beings that do not explain themselves and need not ever justify their ways to man.”
― The Dispossessed
― The Dispossessed
“All babies had that same wise look, as if they’d just come from another realm where they’d learned some beautiful truth they couldn’t share.”
― Nine Perfect Strangers
― Nine Perfect Strangers
“In other words, he has power over you. Where does he get it from? Not from vested authority, there isn’t any. Not from intellectual excellence, he hasn’t any. He gets it from the innate cowardice of the average human mind. Public opinion! That’s the power structure he’s part of, and knows how to use. The unadmitted, inadmissible government that rules the Odonian society by stifling the individual mind.”
― The Dispossessed
― The Dispossessed
“Dad laughed, and despite two thousand volts of frustration tingling and twitching through my body, I laughed too. Everything about him that morning seemed relaxed and brighter than it had in months. He’d always been a moody guy. No one was funnier or more fun to play with than he was when in the right mood and you could feel the barometric pressure drop when he wasn’t.”
― A Head Full of Ghosts
― A Head Full of Ghosts
“Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called “love of nature,” seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. It was strange to see Takver take a leaf into her hand, or even a rock. She became an extension of it, it of her.”
― The Dispossessed
― The Dispossessed
Allie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Allie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
624 books
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147 friends
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71 books
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662 books
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127 friends
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78 friends
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Favorite Genres
Fantasy, Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Poetry, Psychology, Science fiction, Self help, Thriller, Young-adult, and Nonfiction
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