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18/25 books read

january

• world war z – max brooks
  • – "wouldn't you want to believe there was hope?"
• fantasticland – mike bockoven
  • – "sometimes the deer gets away, right?"
• the andromeda strain – michael crichton
  • – "how do you study a form of life totally unlike any you know? how would you even know it was alive?"
• the hobbit – j. r. r. tolkien ↺
  • – "and their hearts looked forward after winter to a spring of joy."
• a short stay in hell – steven peck
  • – "i found a exposition that speculated that god had created the universe as a way of sorting through the great library, finding those books that were most beautiful and meaningful."
• ♡ the way of kings – brandon sanderson
  • – "life before death. strength before weakness. journey before destination."

february

• song of susannah – stephen king
  • – "'only you can save yourself.'"
• ♡ the dark tower – stephen king
  • – "it occurred to him that if he had never loved them, he would never have felt so alone as this. yet of all his many regrets, the re-opening of his heart was not among them, even now."
• ♡♡!!! the color purple – alice walker ↺
  • – "'i think it pisses god off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.'"

march

• summer of night – dan simmons
  • – "he believed mike. he believed duane's notebooks. he believed his friends."
• the bad beginning – lemony snicket ↺
  • "a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit."
• what is not yours is not yours – helen oyeyemi
  • – "the more they loved the more there was to love."
• the great god pan – arthur machen
  • – "it seemed as if he had but passed from one dream into another."
• the reptile room – lemony snicket ↺
  • – "'i think we can miss them without being miserable all the time. after all, they wouldn't want us to be miserable.'"

april

• dungeon crawler carl – matt dinniman
  • – "'you're not going to break me,' i said. 'you might hurt me, or kill me, but you're not going to break me.'"
• red dragon – thomas harris ↺
  • – "'perception's a tool that's pointed on both ends.'"
• the wide window – lemony snicket ↺
  • – "'all we can do is hope.'"
• ♡ the silence of the lambs – thomas harris
  • – "over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, i have to hunt a thing that lives on tears."