Lyrical Prose


On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
The Song of Achilles
All the Light We Cannot See
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
This Is How You Lose the Time War
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Circe
The Night Circus
Lolita
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
The God of Small Things
White Oleander
Hamnet
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Rich DiSilvio
“ As the thick cumulus clouds in the distance parted, a beam of sunlight shed its golden rays upon the valley and onto the tiny telephone poles below. ”
― Rich DiSilvio, The Arnolfini Art Mysteries

Aura Biru
“ There's a kind of alchemy at work in first meetings—how they etch themselves into our narratives, often far more vividly than we realise in the moment. What screams serendipity on the outside is essentially—mainly—a brew of hope, curiosity, and fear. With just a touch of self-delusion. We see what we want to see, hear what we want to hear, and often miss the subtle cues pointing to what's really there. It's why we can walk away from a first kiss feeling like we've found something significant, l ...more ”
― Aura Biru, We Are Everyone

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