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“...eyes that, like those of children, look at an eternal present without forgiveness.”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“You're gonna need a bigger boat”
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“You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forever, and his mind shivered as his body had when he had wakened in the cold nights and thrust his hands between his thighs to keep warm. It will be a long night, he thought.”
― A Fine and Private Place
― A Fine and Private Place
“There's more than one way to fuck someone over. Do it hard so they never forget or do it quietly so they never know you were there.”
― Levon's Trade
― Levon's Trade
“Entitled ‘My Country and Its Appeal’, she commented on China’s cultural icon Confucius: ‘His grossest mistake was the failure to regard womankind with due respect. We learn from observation that no nation can rise to distinction unless her women are educated and considered as man’s equal morally, socially, and intellectually … China’s progress must come largely through her educated women.”
― Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
― Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
Jesse’s 2025 Year in Books
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