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“I have a condition that prompts me to want to know the truth at all times. You can imagine the amount of distress this ailment brings to those of us who could otherwise live so content in a state of blissful ignorance,” - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
2018 was filled with ups and downs—as life usually is, but we had an incredible year of reading here at Lit Lens. Here are our top ten favorites from this year and our least favorites.
“The visionary language of the doomed reaches heights of linguistic ardor with which language of the blessed and saved cannot compete.” ~ Toni Morrison, Paradise
“Freedom has a way of destroying things,” Scott Westerfeld
November was a fairly hefty month of reading for both of us. Somehow, we both managed to get through our TBRs! This month, we’re making a last push to hit our yearly reading goals.
“Why the hell shouldn’t I run away with the circus?” ~ Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
~ Toni Morrison, Beloved
“If you believe you have control, then you believe you’re at the top. And if you’re at the top, then people who aren’t like you… well, they’ve got to be somewhere lower, right? Every species does this. Does it again and again and again.” ~ Becky Chambers, A Closed and Common Orbit
“In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
“He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.” ~ Steve Martin, Shopgirl
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