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Ms. Annie said all God’s children have to take a shit, but you’d never know it from the way they treat the ones that clean it up.
“It is that which used to bear him around. The essential thing (that which was borne, that which we loved) is gone. Though this was part of what we loved (we loved the way he, the combination of spark and bearer, looked and walked and skipped and laughed and played the clown), this, this here, is the lesser part of that beloved contraption. Absent that spark, this, this lying here, is merely—”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
“What I mean to say is, we had been considerable. Had been loved. Not lonely, not lost, not freakish, but wise, each in his or her own way. Our departures caused pain.”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
“But I can tell you that the people who give you charity are never your friends. It is not possible to receive charity from a friend.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“Ms. Annie said all God’s children have to take a shit, but you’d never know it from the way they treat the ones that clean it up.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“Even though they insisted Alice would recover, Sadie often found herself imagining a world that didn’t have Alice in it. A world that lacked shared jokes and music and sweaters and par-baked brownies and sister skin casually against sister skin, under the blankets, in the darkness, and most of all, lacking Alice, the keeper of the innermost secrets and shames of Sadie’s innocent heart.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Sandra’s 2025 Year in Books
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