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“I learned a valuable lesson that day. And an enduring one, too, because it resonates with me still. Family is not just about who you appear to belong to, or what it says on your birth certificate, or who you look like, or even what they’d find if they studied your DNA. Family is found anywhere you are loved and cared for. That might mean friends or foster parents, a group or even a charity. What matters far more — so much more than chemistry or ancestry — is that precious bond, that reassurance that they won’t let you down.”
― The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys
― The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys
“So I invite all of you to show our own species the same patience and compassion that we show dogs. After all, dogs seem to like us a lot, and I have the utmost respect for their opinion.”
― The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs
― The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs
“Humankind is drawn to dogs because they are so like ourselves—bumbling, affectionate, confused, easily disappointed, eager to be amused, grateful for kindness and the least attention.”
― The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs
― The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs
“licentiousness has seldom produced the loss of liberty; but that the tyranny of rulers has almost always effected it.”
― The American Experiment: The Vineyard of Liberty, The Workshop of Democracy, and The Crosswinds of Freedom
― The American Experiment: The Vineyard of Liberty, The Workshop of Democracy, and The Crosswinds of Freedom
“The need of one human being for the approval of his fellow humans, the need for a certain cult of fellowship - a psychological, almost physiological need for approval of one's thought and action. A force that kept men from going off at unsocial tangents, a force that made for social security and human solidarity, for the working together of the human family.
Men died for that approval, sacrificed for that approval, lived lives they loathed for that approval. For without it man was on his own, an outcast, an animal that had been driven from the pack.
It had led to terrible things, of course - to mob psychology, to racial persecution, to mass atrocities in the name of patriotism or religion. But likewise it had been the sizing that held the race together, the thing that from the very start had made human society possible.
And Joe didn't have it. Joe didn't give a damn. He didn't care what anyone thought of him. He didn't care whether anyone approved or not.”
― City
Men died for that approval, sacrificed for that approval, lived lives they loathed for that approval. For without it man was on his own, an outcast, an animal that had been driven from the pack.
It had led to terrible things, of course - to mob psychology, to racial persecution, to mass atrocities in the name of patriotism or religion. But likewise it had been the sizing that held the race together, the thing that from the very start had made human society possible.
And Joe didn't have it. Joe didn't give a damn. He didn't care what anyone thought of him. He didn't care whether anyone approved or not.”
― City
Crystal’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Crystal’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
549 books
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73 friends
1,393 books
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64 friends
376 books
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28 friends
26 books
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15 friends
60 books
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56 friends
817 books
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98 friends
129 books
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96 friends
1 book
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16 friends
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