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“Clock hands move noonward”
― The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971
― The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971
“If there was one thing a former sniper could do well, it was wait. Patiently. Quietly. Without a sound. Barely a movement. Just him, a quiet mind and his breath.”
― Losing My Breath
― Losing My Breath
“You would have entire suburban neighborhoods of upper-middle-class professionals, none of whom had possessed even the basic know-how to replace a cracked window.”
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.”
― Ignorance
― Ignorance
“Little Phoebe was one of those persons who possess, as their exclusive patrimony, the gift of practical arrangement. It is a kind of natural magic that enables these favored ones to bring out the hidden capabilities of things around them; and particularly to give a look of comfort and habitableness to any place which, for however brief a period, may happen to be their home. A wild hut of underbrush, tossed together by wayfarers through the primitive forest, would acquire the home aspect by one night's lodging of such a woman, and would retain it long after her quiet figure had disappeared into the surrounding shade.”
― The House of the Seven Gables
― The House of the Seven Gables
Tobie’s 2024 Year in Books
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254 books
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91 books
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164 books
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