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“...switch the safety off, and wonder what that might feel like, to destroy something just because you can.”

#308 (2020s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
November 6, 2026 at 1:27 PM
tgwood505.bsky.social
“A body forgets, but the heart remembers.”

My 13th novel.

#306 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
November 2, 2026 at 2:08 PM
tgwood505.bsky.social
“There is nothing more exquisite to her than her child: the world could not possibly contain a more perfect being, anywhere, ever.”

#308 (2020s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
November 4, 2026 at 2:06 PM
tgwood505.bsky.social
“There must be a point where you’re allowed to be defined by something other than what he did to you.”

#309 (2020s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
November 5, 2026 at 1:36 PM
tgwood505.bsky.social
“Start here, please, in communion with one another despite our differences, recognizing that without start there is no end.”

#307 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
November 3, 2026 at 1:43 PM
tgwood505.bsky.social
“She was what all the dead are: whatever the living make them.”

#305 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
November 1, 2026 at 2:15 PM
tgwood505.bsky.social
“This is weird, Madison. You want me to raise your fire children.”

#304 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
October 31, 2026 at 4:11 PM
tgwood505.bsky.social
“Even in death the boys were trouble.”

#303 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
October 30, 2026 at 12:45 PM
tgwood505.bsky.social
“You’ll be a lot less obsessed with what people think of you when you understand how infrequently they do.”

#302 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
October 29, 2026 at 1:20 PM
tgwood505.bsky.social
My 12th novel.

“It didn't matter where they went, the stars followed. A map of the universe spread out before them.”

#301 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
October 28, 2026 at 1:35 PM
tgwood505.bsky.social
“Because the bad things you do become part of you, literally. This is no metaphor. They become part of you on a cellular level, in the blood.”

#300 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
October 27, 2026 at 3:03 PM
tgwood505.bsky.social
“It's always a matter, isn't it, of waiting for the world to come unraveled? When things hold together, it's always only temporary.”

#299 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
October 26, 2026 at 6:42 PM
tgwood505.bsky.social
“The scent changes, though, as you hop between tongues. I’m not sure how you achieve the effect, but you can trust me. I am fluent in you.”

#297 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
October 25, 2026 at 1:19 PM
tgwood505.bsky.social
“But you give because you love, not because you expect something. If you’re lucky, you may be loved back, which is a wonderful thing, but there is no guarantee.”

#296 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
October 24, 2026 at 1:40 PM
tgwood505.bsky.social
My 11th novel.

“A lie, in collusion with time, can overpower the truth. A good lie has the power to subsume reality. A good lie can become the truth.”

#295 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
October 23, 2026 at 1:47 PM
tgwood505.bsky.social
“The thing about remembering is that to recall one memory is to suppress its neighbors. In order to remember you must forget.”

#294 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
October 22, 2026 at 12:33 PM
tgwood505.bsky.social
“There's too much blank sky where a tree once stood.”

#293 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
October 21, 2026 at 12:35 PM
tgwood505.bsky.social
Such a fabulous memoir of a 1970's childhood.

#292 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
October 20, 2026 at 12:34 PM
tgwood505.bsky.social
“It’s no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it’s sanctimony.”

#291 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
October 19, 2026 at 12:58 PM
tgwood505.bsky.social
“I mostly liked high school. I liked learning things. How numbers worked together to explain the stars. How molecules made the world. All the ugly and wonderful things people had done in the last two thousand years.”

#290 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
October 18, 2026 at 1:19 PM
tgwood505.bsky.social
My tenth book!

“When you have suffered betrayal by the universe, a betrayal by a man is not only unsurprising but expected.”

#289 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
October 17, 2026 at 2:24 PM
tgwood505.bsky.social
“They knew each other most deeply through body-warmed sheets and the tangle of half dreams.”

#288 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
October 16, 2026 at 2:02 PM
tgwood505.bsky.social
“Break down the self, offer yourself up like dust to the universe.”

#287 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
October 14, 2026 at 12:31 PM
tgwood505.bsky.social
“The accidents of history are everywhere. The carnage all around us.”

#286 (2010s) #books #booksky #genxreader #readingcommunity #365books
October 13, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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
October 12, 2026 at 10:56 AM