“If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
Gabriella’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Gabriella’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Romance, Self help, Spirituality, and Young-adult
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