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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
“She's such a goddamn liar maybe she don't know herself anymore.”
― Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
― Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
“The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.”
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“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
Take a look at Jesse’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
356 books
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6 friends
225 books
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3 friends
419 books
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44 friends
145 books
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7 friends
347 books
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23 friends
484 books
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4 friends
192 books
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3 friends
342 books
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3 friends
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