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“That woman is the most difficult, the most stubborn redhead I've ever had the displeasure of meeting."
He shot off, leaving only a blurry streak in his wake.
"And you're falling in love with her," Kylie whispered.”
― Awake at Dawn
He shot off, leaving only a blurry streak in his wake.
"And you're falling in love with her," Kylie whispered.”
― Awake at Dawn
“Running to him was real; the way he did it the realest thing he knew. It was all joy and woe, hard as diamond; it made him weary beyond comprehension. But it also made him free.”
― Once a Runner
― Once a Runner
“Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.”
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“Training was a rite of purification; from it came speed, strength. Racing was a rite of death; from it came knowledge. Such rites demand, if they are to be meaningful at all, a certain amount of time spent precisely on the Red Line, where you can lean over the manicured putting green at the edge of the precipice and see exactly nothing.”
― Once a Runner
― Once a Runner
“What was the secret, they wanted to know; in a thousand different ways they wanted to know The Secret. And not one of them was prepared, truly prepared to believe that it had not so much to do with chemicals and zippy mental tricks as with that most unprofound and sometimes heart-rending process of removing, molecule by molecule, the very tough rubber that comprised the bottoms of his training shoes. The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials.”
― Once a Runner
― Once a Runner
50 books to read before you die
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These are the named books: 1 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien 2 1984 by George Orwell 3 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 4 The Gra ...more
Summer Reading '11
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Dates are approximate May 1-16: The Bell Jar by Silvia Path May 17-31 Looking for Alaska by John Green June 1-30 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy July 1-1 ...more
Jasmine’s 2025 Year in Books
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