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when the public allows itself to be fooled by a smooth-talking wannabe dictator, “what you get in the end,” Alice insisted, “is your Fuehrer, your Duce, your Rex.”
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“That was a fate we could not escape, we women; we would always be called upon by others in a way men simply never were. But weren’t we always, first and foremost—woman? Wasn’t there strength in that, victory, clarity—in all the stages of a woman’s life?”
― The Aviator's Wife
― The Aviator's Wife
“They now endure incessant cultural appropriation by a majority society in the United States that celebrates an idealized American Indian but ignores reservation life—the economic blight and marginalization of what are, in effect, national internment zones, exacerbated by federal inattention and mismanagement. In Indian country there are also thriving cultural traditions and creative genius, but these often receive little more recognition than the problems. —”
― Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
― Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
“If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn’t bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn’t bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn’t even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn’t bear not to.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“the voices are so persuasive, you don’t know what’s real and what’s not. You know the voices aren’t talking into your ears, but they’re not exactly in your head either. They seem to call to you from another place that you’ve accidentally tapped into, like a cell phone pulling in a conversation in some foreign language—yet somehow you understand it. They linger there on the edge of your consciousness like the things you hear just as you’re waking up, before the dream collapses under the crushing weight of the real world. But what if the dream doesn’t go away when you wake up? And what if you lose the ability to tell the difference?”
― Challenger Deep
― Challenger Deep
Bethany’s 2025 Year in Books
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