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His wife had left because, she claimed, he was locked shut. She said the most emotion he’d ever shown her had been during a heated debate about her use of a comma in a note she’d left him about grocery shopping.
“Most people come to New York to be discovered. The rest of us come here to hide.”
― Verity
― Verity
“The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“Sincere Graves was unnerving. Theatrical Graves was familiar. Lindsey relaxed. “Thank you.”
― Mr Warren's Profession
― Mr Warren's Profession
“The battle rages eternal, though the race, religion, gender or sexual orientation of those discriminated against changes regularly. Maybe man’s need for a scapegoat is genetically programmed into him.”
― A Dangerous Thing
― A Dangerous Thing
“Sentimentality was mawkish and cloying, where nostalgia was acute and aching. It described yearning of the most profound kind: an awareness that time’s passage could not be stopped and there was no going back to reclaim a moment or a person or to do things differently.”
― The Clockmaker's Daughter
― The Clockmaker's Daughter
Lesley’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lesley’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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