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“it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.”
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“Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.”
― All Over But the Shoutin'
― All Over But the Shoutin'
“Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to
wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”
― The Spectator Bird
wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”
― The Spectator Bird
“But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas have lasted thousands of years . . . I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside.”
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“Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.”
― Angle of Repose
― Angle of Repose
Barbara’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Barbara’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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153 friends
227 books
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153 books
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4 friends
40 books
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1 friend
27 books
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5 friends
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