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Pam’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Pam’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Pam Jones
Goodreads Author
Born
in Paterson, New Jersey, The United States
Twitter
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Influences
Jeanette Winterson, Jamaica Kincaid, Shirley Jackson, Flannery O'Conno
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Member Since
April 2013
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/pamjones89
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Ivy Day
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Andermatt County: Two Parables
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The Biggest Little Bird
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2013
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The Joyful Mysteries
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Boned Every Which Way 2016
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The Cost of Paper: Volume Three
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Anointed
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2021
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2 editions
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A Carnival of Birds
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The Arizona Room
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“One would think, however, that sharing a name might offer a thin string of connection. It was always a thrill to meet someone who had the same name as you, and unlike a lot of things, this was a thrill that never quite faded.”
― The Cost of Paper: Volume Three
― The Cost of Paper: Volume Three
“It was not impulse.
It was not lust.
It was not wrath, or boredom, or desperation.
People remembered the saints because they had their tokens.”
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It was not lust.
It was not wrath, or boredom, or desperation.
People remembered the saints because they had their tokens.”
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“Her occupation was the worst that anyone could think of. No guest in the park had to think of it because, unlike the wandering dwarf women, her job had no bearing on paper.”
― The Biggest Little Bird
― The Biggest Little Bird
“Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.”
― Valley of the Dolls
― Valley of the Dolls
“You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? 'I love you' is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did I, yet when you say it and when I say it we speak like savages who have found three words and worship them.”
― Written on the Body
― Written on the Body
“But where was God now, with heaven full of astronauts, and the Lord overthrown? I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. The servants of God, yes, but servants by their very nature betray. I miss God who was my friend. I don't even know if God exists, but I do know that if God is your emotional role model, very few human relationships will match up to it. I have an idea that one day it might be possible, I thought once it had become possible, and that glimpse has set me wandering, trying to find the balance between earth and sky. If the servants hadn't rushed in and parted us, I might have been disappointed, might have snatched off the white samite to find a bowl of soup.
As it is, I can't settle, I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and know that love is as strong as death, and be on my side for ever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me. There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name. Romantic love has been diluted into paperback form and has sold thousands and millions of copies. Somewhere it is still in the original, written on tablets of stone. I would cross seas and suffer sunstroke and give away all I have, but not for a man, because they want to be the destroyer and never the destroyed.”
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
As it is, I can't settle, I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and know that love is as strong as death, and be on my side for ever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me. There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name. Romantic love has been diluted into paperback form and has sold thousands and millions of copies. Somewhere it is still in the original, written on tablets of stone. I would cross seas and suffer sunstroke and give away all I have, but not for a man, because they want to be the destroyer and never the destroyed.”
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.”
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.”
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