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They are always there and, always, they reach into those inner places where I question my own goodness and doubt my self-worth. They suggest that I am not going to be loved without my having earned it through determined efforts and hard
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“[T]he luminous and shocking beauty of the everyday is something I try to remain alert to, if only as an antidote to the chronic cynicism and disenchantment that seems to surround everything, these days. It tells me that, despite how debased or corrupt we are told humanity is and how degraded the world has become, it just keeps on being beautiful. It can’t help it.”
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
“Happiness is a form of insubordination in the face of life, I guess.”
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
“It’s more that there are things I am hesitant to spell out because they are fragile.”
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
“You can have everything and feel nothing.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“My life is lived with a different intensity, not the burning intensity of youth. It’s something else a kind of spiritual audacity…an audacity in the face of things…a kind of reckless refusal to submit to the condition of the world.”
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
Matthew’s 2025 Year in Books
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Favorite Genres
Adult Fiction, Art, Biography, Book Club, Business, Children's, Christian, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, Travel, and Young-adult
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