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They won’t even look up. They maintain this guilty, defiant refusal to engage: I know you’re out there; I know it’s awful and I’m safe inside, but I suffered too, so let me just read my Kindle without bloody guilt-tripping me, OK?
“Life is a long lesson in humility.”
― The Little Minister
― The Little Minister
“Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat...giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.”
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“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence”
― Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III
― Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III
“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
― The Two Towers
― The Two Towers
Tawny’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Tawny’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,441 books
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8 friends
3,374 books
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19 friends
626 books
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1,137 friends
145 books
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654 friends
1,304 books
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22 friends
714 books
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78 friends
386 books
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151 friends
1,230 books
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89 friends
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