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“I myself was now an island. Solitary. Brambles and five-petalled flowers were my garden. Rocks my furniture. Ocean waves my lessons. Sadness overwhelmed me and sank back. Then, like the tide, joy crept in on me again.”
― Isola
― Isola
“Ellwood knew there was a quotation for this particular, painful speechlessness, but it did not come to him. All his words were gone. There was something surging gloriously in his chest, and he had no way to express it.”
― In Memoriam
― In Memoriam
“but it was the Classics Gaunt wanted: Plutarch and Xenophon and Thucydides, men who proved that Gaunt's own trouble were ancient and survivable.”
― In Memoriam
― In Memoriam
“It had been hopeless to love Ellwood because Ellwood did not love him back, and now it was hopeless even though he did.”
― In Memoriam
― In Memoriam
“She was struck by the discrepancy in meaning the belongings presented. That death meant not only the cessation of a life, but vast worlds of significance. A candle that might have once provided comfort in the winter darkness, a shawl gifted by an erstwhile suitor, a pheasant that recalled her poor lost grandfather. Old brass, old rag, old bird.”
― North Woods
― North Woods
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Laura’s 2025 Year in Books
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