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The old house hunkers on its hill, all peeling white paint, bay windows, and spindled wooden railings overgrown with climbing roses and poison oak. Rose runners have prized off clapboards that now hang snarled in the canes. The gravel drive
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“They came here, desperate, lured by the promise of finally winning something, set up to be devoured so people who already had everything would continue having exactly what they already had, what they could have had anyway, what they felt was their due.”
― Hide
― Hide
“Hob is used to this and waited with the stoic air of a martyr undergoing torture.”
― What Moves the Dead
― What Moves the Dead
“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves. —FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“I feel exhausted, a feeling of catching up, a feeling of something finding me. My heart is a thin thing, these days—shred of paper blown between the spaces in my ribs.”
― Our Wives Under the Sea
― Our Wives Under the Sea
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Hali’s 2025 Year in Books
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