“When I meet people, I always imagine what world hides inside them.”
― Amelia Unabridged
― Amelia Unabridged
“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“Be a good neighbor and you will have good neighbors”
― Comfort Me With Apples
― Comfort Me With Apples
“We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass; we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.”
― The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
― The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
“Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme, supple and staccato enough to adapt to the lyrical stirrings of the soul, the undulations of dreams, and sudden leaps of consciousness.”
― Paris Spleen
― Paris Spleen
Elena’s 2025 Year in Books
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