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Just like I pretended to want, without understanding what that meant,
“Strawberries first shaped my view of a world full of gifts simply scattered at your feet. A gift comes to you through no action of your own, free, having moved toward you without your beckoning. It is not a reward; you cannot earn it, or call it to you, or even deserve it. And yet it appears. Your only role is to be open-eyed and present. Gifts exist in a realm of humility and mystery—as with random acts of kindness, we do not know their source.”
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“Concerning Hobbits. This book is largely concerned with Hobbits, and from its pages a reader may discover much of their character and a little of their history.” “That’s just the Prologue,” I assured him. “You could skip that, if you like.” He shook his head, eyes fixed on the page, smiling. “If the author thought it was worth his writing it down, then it’s worth my reading it. I dinna mean to miss a single word.”
― Go Tell the Bees that I am Gone
― Go Tell the Bees that I am Gone
“But he’d known her as Little Otto, the private name they’d used for the unborn child. Otto had had a distinct personality—and for a moment, he felt a ridiculous pang of loss, realizing that Otto was gone. This tiny, exquisite being was someone entirely new.”
― A Breath of Snow and Ashes
― A Breath of Snow and Ashes
“Like all girls over the age of nine, Margo had an elastic band perpetually cutting off the circulation on her wrist.”
― Skipshock
― Skipshock
“Played Scrabble. God, so lovely to play Scrabble in the pub with Eva and Alf. I just stared at them, proud that they could spell the odd word, and happy that they wanted to. Not everybody does. Many people never want to play Scrabble or Monopoly or even Guess Who? or anything, but my kids will drop everything for a game of Risk or Boggle or an on-the-spot quiz that I make up, hide-and-seek, even 20 questions, even an arm wrestle. Anything, they are ludic.”
― Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary
― Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary
Cecilia’s 2025 Year in Books
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