“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
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“Let me tie my shadow to your feet and call it a friendship, I said to myself.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“We will never fight again, our lovely, quick, template-ready arguments. Our delicate cross-stitch of bickers.
The house becomes a physical encyclopedia of no-longer hers, which shocks and shocks and is the principal difference between our house and a house where illness has worked away. Ill people, in their last day on Earth, do not leave notes stuck to bottles of red wine saying ‘OH NO YOU DON’T COCK-CHEEK’. She was not busy dying, and there is no detritus of care, she was simply busy living, and then she was gone.
She won’t ever use (make-up, turmeric, hairbrush, thesaurus).
She will never finish (Patricia Highsmith novel, peanut butter, lip balm).
And I will never shop for green Virago Classics for her birthday.
I will stop finding her hairs.
I will stop hearing her breathing.”
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
The house becomes a physical encyclopedia of no-longer hers, which shocks and shocks and is the principal difference between our house and a house where illness has worked away. Ill people, in their last day on Earth, do not leave notes stuck to bottles of red wine saying ‘OH NO YOU DON’T COCK-CHEEK’. She was not busy dying, and there is no detritus of care, she was simply busy living, and then she was gone.
She won’t ever use (make-up, turmeric, hairbrush, thesaurus).
She will never finish (Patricia Highsmith novel, peanut butter, lip balm).
And I will never shop for green Virago Classics for her birthday.
I will stop finding her hairs.
I will stop hearing her breathing.”
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
“Time was a wave, almost cruel in its relentlessness.”
― The Vegetarian
― The Vegetarian
“Take a right on Risley. If you forget me, then you’ve gone too far. Turn back. Good luck. Good night. Good lord, Green Apple.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Jinte’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jinte’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Art, Contemporary, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Manga, Mystery, Poetry, Psychology, Young-adult, lgbt, coming-of-age, and womens
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