“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Black Boy
― Black Boy
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― The Way of Chuang Tzu
― The Way of Chuang Tzu
“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― The New Life
― The New Life
“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
Elisa’s 2025 Year in Books
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