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“Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.”
― Angle of Repose
― Angle of Repose
“You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine.”
― Crossing to Safety
― Crossing to Safety
“Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.”
― All Over But the Shoutin'
― All Over But the Shoutin'
“This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven.”
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“Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.”
― Angle of Repose
― Angle of Repose
Barbara’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Barbara’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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4,990 friends
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153 friends
214 books
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148 books
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4 friends
40 books
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24 books
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5 friends
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