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Frederick Weisel
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Genre
Influences
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March 2012
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The Silenced Women (Violent Crime Investigations Team, #1)
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2021
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6 editions
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The Day He Left (Violent Crime Investigations, #2)
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2022
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Teller
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2011
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Salman Rushdie
I saw Salman Rushdie in a public appearance in Marin last
week. He’s just published an account of his 12-1/2 years in hiding, following
the condemnation of his novel, The
Satanic Verses, in 1989 by Muslim extremists and a death sentence handed
down by the Ayatollah Khomeini.
The new book is called Joseph
Anton, the title coming from the code name used for him by the British
Secret Read more of this blog post »
week. He’s just published an account of his 12-1/2 years in hiding, following
the condemnation of his novel, The
Satanic Verses, in 1989 by Muslim extremists and a death sentence handed
down by the Ayatollah Khomeini.
The new book is called Joseph
Anton, the title coming from the code name used for him by the British
Secret Read more of this blog post »
“Of course, when you fall out of love, it’s rarely about just one failure or one betrayal, is it? . . .
How does it happen? All those things you once loved about each other are replaced by other things that remind you of something you hate until you’re always setting each other off, and what you share is a battleground. In the end, the failure turns out to be less about sex—which surprises most men—and more about loss of respect. One morning your partner looks at you across the bed and wonders at the waywardness of her own heart—how, she asks herself, can she feel such disdain for someone she once felt such love?”
― Teller
How does it happen? All those things you once loved about each other are replaced by other things that remind you of something you hate until you’re always setting each other off, and what you share is a battleground. In the end, the failure turns out to be less about sex—which surprises most men—and more about loss of respect. One morning your partner looks at you across the bed and wonders at the waywardness of her own heart—how, she asks herself, can she feel such disdain for someone she once felt such love?”
― Teller
“There’s an old adage: the sensation of drowning reminds you of everything you ever knew about swimming.”
― Teller
― Teller
“Sometimes, however much you plan, however many precautions you take, something happens, and in a minute the world is changed. After that, you’re the person on the other side of that minute.”
― Teller
― Teller
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“Every American autobiography, someone once said, is about one thing—escape. Look into the frightened heart of an American life, and you’ll find a compulsion to flee—a seed planted in the national character at the start by those ships sailing out of Europe and landing on our shores.
— Teller: A Novel”
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— Teller: A Novel”
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“Aren’t autobiographies born in a question we ask ourselves: how did I get to this point? Don’t we look back over the path and tell ourselves a story? This is how it happened. This is who I am.”
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“The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us, even among those we love, different versions of the truth and everything we couldn’t bring ourselves to say.”
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“I lived that year on top of a wooden tower in an area east of Santa Rosa known as the Valley of the Moon.”
― Teller
― Teller
“As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write, might achieve esteem and success equal to her great novel, but that its emotional heart would lie in her own unhappiness for having failed to find the one thing she wanted. For the first time she was a character in her own writing, and her frailties and mistakes were trapped on the page by the beauty and unsparing focus of her prose. Towards the end it was a battle to finish a page. The story was the story she had told herself for decades, deep within her own mind, and now as it grew, line by line, on the paper before her, she wrestled with each turn in the path all over again, as if it were still possible to change its course with the power of her words.”
― Teller
― Teller
