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Melanie’s magical-realism shelf

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura

Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez

You Will Never Be Forgotten by Mary South

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

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“The individual "I" is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”
― Milan Kundera

tags: love

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“It's no secret, of course, that souls sometimes die within a person and are replaced by others — especially with age.”
― Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales

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“How do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on nothing more substantial than differences in table manners, variations in the structure of the eyelid?”
― J. M. Coetzee

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“Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: love, romance

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