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It was also a better fit for how Jeremiah saw himself. Every young man thinks he’s a badass. The military was a chance to prove it.
“The idea of casually leaving books out around the apartment felt very “grown up.”
― The Bookseller's Son
― The Bookseller's Son
“I had one of those stopovers when the children were young, just before Gilbert died, and Daan and I were happy, even though I didn’t know it was happiness at the time because it felt like busyness and exhaustion and financial stress and self-doubt. But Gilbert’s death was a swift ejection back out to the loneliest bitter stretch of road, and that is the bone crunching grief.”
― The Correspondent
― The Correspondent
“She would have to buy other under-the-covers favorites later, not to read, but to make her smile when she saw them out in the open on a shelf.”
― The Bookseller's Son
― The Bookseller's Son
“When you start something, when you say something, you are responsible for where it goes,” George said. “You are responsible for any damage your words may cause. It doesn’t matter who struck the match.”
― The Bookseller's Son
― The Bookseller's Son
“In your letter from March you mentioned the matter of your boredom. Of course you are bored. The mind was not created for idleness. Golf, drinking, staying in one’s pajamas until late in the morning, stretching oneself to find ways in which to pass the days is the way we were meant to spend our vacation weeks, not decades of our lives.”
― The Correspondent
― The Correspondent
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