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The Serpent King
41 editions
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2016
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Goodbye Days
28 editions
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2017
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Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee
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2019
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In the Wild Light
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2021
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If you’re going to live, you might as well do painful, brave and beautiful things
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Juntos somos eternos
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El rey serpiente
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It’s no secret to anyone who knows me that I worship Kerry Kletter’s writing. And if you’ve ever wondered why, just read this book. From the first sentence to the last, it’s a wrenchingly gorgeous, vital, lyrical, funny, and true-to-life portrait of ...more | |
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It’s no secret to anyone who knows me that I worship Kerry Kletter’s writing. And if you’ve ever wondered why, just read this book. From the first sentence to the last, it’s a wrenchingly gorgeous, vital, lyrical, funny, and true-to-life portrait of ...more | |
“If you're going to live, you might as well do painful, brave, and beautiful things.”
― The Serpent King
― The Serpent King
“Nothing makes you feel more naked than someone identifying a desire you never knew you possessed.”
― The Serpent King
― The Serpent King
“For the most part, you don't hold the people you love in your heart because they rescued you from drowning or pulled you from a burning house. Mostly you hold them in your heart because they save you, in a million quiet and perfect ways, from being alone.”
― Goodbye Days
― Goodbye Days
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“If you're going to live, you might as well do painful, brave, and beautiful things.”
― The Serpent King
― The Serpent King
“She's it. She's my everything. She's the standard by which I'll judge beauty for the rest of my life. I'll measure every touch to her breath on my skin. Every voice to her voice. Every mind to her mind. My measure of perfection. The name carved into me. If I could, I would lie with her under these stars until my heart burst.”
― The Serpent King
― The Serpent King
“Writing is something that you can learn only by doing. To become a writer, you need an imagination, which you clearly have. You need to read books, which you clearly do. And you need to write, which you don't yet do, but should.”
― The Serpent King
― The Serpent King
“So when I watch trains, it makes me think about how much movement there is in the world. How every train has dozens of cars and every car has hundreds of parts, and all those parts and cars work day after day. And then there are all these other motions. People are born and die. Seasons change. Rivers flow to the sea. Earth circles the sun and the moon circles Earth. Everything whirring and spinning toward something. And I get to be part of it for a little while, the way I get to watch a train for a minute or two, and then it's gone.”
― The Serpent King
― The Serpent King