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“Kids should be fat, she says. Filled with sugar and kindness and love. If I have kids they’re going to be enormous. I’ll stuff them full of everything they want.”
― Strange Flowers
― Strange Flowers
“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
“How old was Jem when he finally learned to tell jokes? You remember how he got the form of jokes but didn’t really understand the idea of content?’ ‘What’s the difference between a … a … a button and a sock?’ she mimicked, catching Jem’s breathless excitement to a T. ‘A … BUFFALO! HAHAHAHAHA!”
― An Echo in the Bone
― An Echo in the Bone
“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
Take a look at Cecilia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
479 books
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55 friends
631 books
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104 friends
134 books
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1,716 friends
471 books
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117 friends
47 books
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5 friends
825 books
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21 friends
125 books
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50 friends
1,150 books
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65 friends
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