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The world was bigger, stranger, richer, and wilder than I had a right to ask for.
You can’t forget what you never knew.
People and their emotions puzzled me. They were stupidly complex, and there was no way to break them apart and see what was inside.
To his astonishment, the angels said, Emergency adultery.
I'll admit it, I laughed…
Rafi dragged over to the shelf.
Huh?
His father demanded to see the essay. When the man finished, Rafi braced for his fury. It didn’t come. His father handed the pages back to him and looked away. “All right, then. If those folks don’t take you, it’s time to move to another country.”
This was a sweet moment.
A person who never felt sadness would never have been able to feel such pride.
He spoke like he was hungry to talk but wasn’t sure he had a right to.
Love this
pinniped
This word was in NYT puzzle today; never encountered the word before today...
The Game That the Gods Play, by Hideo Ohira.
Not a real book?
“If two choices are impossible to choose between, it means they have equal merit. Either choice can have your belief. It doesn’t matter which you choose. You shed one chooser and grow into another.”
I love the thought here, but man is it expressed in the worst possible way.
