“A grown woman is like a coyote--she can get by on very little. Men are more like house cats. Leave them alone for too long and they'll die of sadness.”
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@tgwood505.bsky.social“A grown woman is like a coyote--she can get by on very little. Men are more like house cats. Leave them alone for too long and they'll die of sadness.”
#285 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
@tgwood505.bsky.social“But for every adult person you look up to in life there is trailing behind them an invisible chain gang of ghosts, all of which, as a child, you are generously spared from meeting.”
#283 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
@tgwood505.bsky.social“I like a good story, don’t get me wrong. But a man should never be the hero of his own stories. Nobody likes those stories.”
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@tgwood505.bsky.social“The goal with teenagers is simply getting through it alive, with no permanent damage.”
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@tgwood505.bsky.social“It would disappear forever from her memory of Lydia, the way memories of a lost loved one always smooth and simplify themselves, shedding complexities like scales.”
#280 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
@tgwood505.bsky.social“Bad things happen and then they’re over, but where do they go?”
#279 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
@tgwood505.bsky.social“The truth you find will always be replaced by someone else’s.”
#278 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
@tgwood505.bsky.social“She is proof that there is nothing that cannot happen to someone. That the world doesn't need permission, that there is no novel evil it won't embrace.”
#277 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
@tgwood505.bsky.social“The truth is neither good nor bad. It is above evil. Above morality. It doesn’t offer anything besides itself.”
#276 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
@tgwood505.bsky.social“How strange it was that a dream, once realized, could quickly turn mundane.”
#275 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
@tgwood505.bsky.social“There is never only one Truth. There is only one truth at a time.”
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@tgwood505.bsky.social“This is what I know: memory is the same as water. It permeates and saturates. Quenches and satiates. It can hold you up or pull you under; render you weightless or drown you."
My eighth novel.
#273 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
@tgwood505.bsky.social“This was the elasticity and permanence of parental love; everything vile about your children was to some degree something vile about yourself, and disowning your child for their failings could only compound your own.”
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@tgwood505.bsky.social“We crawled through time like roaches through the linings of walls, the neglected spaces and hours, foolishly happy that we were still alive even as we did everything to die.”
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@tgwood505.bsky.social“Because the truth is, the world will probably whittle your daughter down. But a mother never should.”
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@tgwood505.bsky.social“The simple truth is this: Most humans are very much alike. The simple and obvious truth is that there are very few variables to what a person might do, think, fear or desire in any given situation.”
#269 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
@tgwood505.bsky.social“Be happy. Decide to be happy. If you want to be happy, be happy! No one cares if you're happy or not, so why wait for permission?"
#268 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
@tgwood505.bsky.social“ ... sometimes we breathe because we have to, not because we want to ...”
#267 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
@tgwood505.bsky.social“Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”
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@tgwood505.bsky.social“Keep making noise, I prayed, laughing. Bang drums. Clamor and ring bells for I cannot stand to hear the tired beating of this almost heart.”
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