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You may be a saint. Saints are like that, I think. Elusive. Other. Upsetting.”

—Ron Hansen, Mariette in Ecstasy

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"Do you know what it is you're most afraid of?"

Whenever Andrew Dominik says that there's a certain scene he can't talk about because "it's like talking about your dead child" it's def this whole aaa scene from the book LNAOOO

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Ron Hansen, Mariette in Ecstasy

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I have to be honest, I'm a little surprised to see you don't read historical fiction. Every other presidential historian I know (I know a handful through my job) are historical fiction fans.

Also I'm right there with you with not liking science fiction (hate it myself)

Yeah, I don't even read much historical fiction, other than a few exceptions.

I love Ron Hansen's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (BOOK | AUDIO | KINDLE). It's about as good as it gets when it comes to historical fiction being relatively historically accurate. But it's also just beautifully written and feels almost lyrical at times. And the movie is, hands-down, my favorite film of all-time.