“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― The New Life
― The New Life
“But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I felt even annoyed at discovering in myself a sensation of freedom as if I had been freed from something by his death.”
― Dubliners
― Dubliners
“This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time -- you feel their singleness and precise location and the forlorn coincidence of you being there to see them.”
― The Progress of Love
― The Progress of Love
“What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?”
― Strangers on a Train
― Strangers on a Train
Shimaa’s 2025 Year in Books
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