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Everywhere Isaac looked, people wanted to go back. Back to a time when people like him either didn’t exist—or kept their damn mouths shut. Back to a time when there were plenty of confirmed bachelors, but nobody was gay. Back to a time when
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At one time, probably during the early Obama era, I naively thought most of the country had moved past this racist, homophobic mindset. I still believe the majority of the American public has moved on, in a “live and let live” sort of way. It’s just that the loudest, most aggrieved among us now feel permission to voice and act on their worst impulses. And they get attention in social media and on the news for this.
“Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.”
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By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.”
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“As I looked at [my future husband] I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.”
― One True Thing
― One True Thing
“He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.”
― The Amateur Marriage
― The Amateur Marriage
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
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“After my mother died, I had a feeling that was not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few days when I went to stay at my grandparents'' house, and even, I was stunned to discover, during the first few months of my freshman year at college. It was not really the home my mother had made that I yearned for. But I was sick in my soul for that greater meaning of home that we understand most purely when we are children, when it is a metaphor for all possible feelings of security, of safety, of what is predictable, gentle, and good in life.”
― One True Thing
― One True Thing
Karin’s 2025 Year in Books
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