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I’d been kind to Ismene—or I thought I had, but perhaps no kindness was possible between owner and slave, only varying degrees of brutality?
“Life has a way of shattering our expectations, of leaving our hopes in pieces without explanation. But when there's love in a family, the fragments left behind from our shattered dreams can always be pulled together again, even if the end result is a mosaic.”
― The Things We Cannot Say
― The Things We Cannot Say
“There are so many firsts to raising kids, and parents are told to catch them all. But they don’t warn you about the lasts. The last baby onesie. The last time you tie their shoes. The last time they think you have every answer in the world.”
― Open Book
― Open Book
“Do you have any other advice?" asked the boy.
"Don't measure how valuable you are by the way you are treated," said the horse.”
― The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
"Don't measure how valuable you are by the way you are treated," said the horse.”
― The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
“I wrote, “Rescue 2, John Napolitano, I’m here and I love you. Dad.”
― The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
― The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
“The fact is that I did not know how to understand anything! I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words. She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little strategems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
Ann’s 2025 Year in Books
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875 friends
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529 books
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267 books
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78 books
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61 books
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