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“It makes you wonder why we bother accumulating, accumulating, when we know from earliest childhood how it’s all going to end.”
― A Spool of Blue Thread
― A Spool of Blue Thread
“Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be...”
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Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be...”
―
“So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key."
(Already Gone)”
― The Very Best of the Eagles
(Already Gone)”
― The Very Best of the Eagles
“But it’s like time is sort of … balanced. We’re young for such a small fraction of our lives, and yet our youth seems to stretch on forever. Then we’re old for years and years, but time flies by fastest then. So it all comes out equal in the end, don’t you see.”
― A Spool of Blue Thread
― A Spool of Blue Thread
“You know how you just have to touch your child, sometimes? How you drink him in with your eyes and you could stare at him for hours and you marvel at how dear and impossibly perfect he is?”
― A Spool of Blue Thread
― A Spool of Blue Thread
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Betsy’s 2025 Year in Books
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