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"Y'know when all your library holds come through at once and the book you were hoping to savor is among them? I'm giving this time when I can but I'm sorry I can't read it leisurely. As before, Osman writes like he really enjoys these characters and I love that." — Apr 19, 2026 09:38PM
"Y'know when all your library holds come through at once and the book you were hoping to savor is among them? I'm giving this time when I can but I'm sorry I can't read it leisurely. As before, Osman writes like he really enjoys these characters and I love that." — Apr 19, 2026 09:38PM
The Poet X
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When your body takes up more room than your voice you are always the target of well-aimed rumors,
“His face did not move her. There was little in him she wanted to know.”
― Academy Street
― Academy Street
“What kind of scripture and, really, what kind of God, can't stand up to the questioning of mere mortals like us?”
― The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
― The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
“How long will molecular traces of the Wilfs remain inside 18 Division Street?”
― Signal Fires
― Signal Fires
“Time does not heal all wounds... some just become more complicated.”
― The Veil of Violence
― The Veil of Violence
“I don't easily give up these moments of grace and joy. At fifty-one, I've experienced enough to know that when tragedy strikes, these moments evaporate with breathtaking speed in the bitter cold of loss, and I'm left grasping for them, my wounded spirit parched.”
― On Being 40
― On Being 40
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