“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
“The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
“And ice-cream cones,' she says. 'What is it with you and ice-cream cones?'
He licks around the edge of his cone as he considers the question. 'I guess no one ever eats an ice-cream cone at a funeral, or a fire. The Red Cross doesn't drop ice-cream cones into third-world countries. If you're eating an ice-cream cone, it's just very hard to believe that things have gone completely to shit. That there isn't still hope.”
― One Last Thing Before I Go
He licks around the edge of his cone as he considers the question. 'I guess no one ever eats an ice-cream cone at a funeral, or a fire. The Red Cross doesn't drop ice-cream cones into third-world countries. If you're eating an ice-cream cone, it's just very hard to believe that things have gone completely to shit. That there isn't still hope.”
― One Last Thing Before I Go
Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
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