Poetic Prose


On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
The Night Circus
Circe
Lolita
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
This Is How You Lose the Time War
The Song of Achilles
To the Lighthouse
The God of Small Things
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)
Some distances are crossed by walking. Others are crossed by waiting.
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Philippe Delerm
APPLES SCENT, You arrive in the basement. Immediatly it catches you. Apples are here, lying on fruit trays, turned crates. You didn't think about it. You had no wish to be flooded by this melancholic wave. But you can't resist. Apple scent is a breaker. How could you manage without this childhood, bitter and sweet ? Shrivelled fruits surely are delicious, from this feak dryness where candied taste seems to have wormed in each wrinkle. But you don't wish to eat them. Particularly don't turn into ...more
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