“Do you ever think about how many stories are out there?" she asks, placing a finger on the glass. "How many dramas are unfolding around us right this very moment? I wonder how long a book you would need to record them. You'd probably need an entire library to hold a single evening in Manhattan. An hour. A minute.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“We are the stars," he answers, as though it is the most obvious of facts afloat in a sea of metaphors and misdirections. "We are all stardust and stories.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“There is a defiance in being a dreamer”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“I came out of the park. The city streets rose up around me. There was a hotel with a courtyard with metal tables and chairs for people to sit in more clement weather. Today they were snow-strewn and forlorn. A lattice of wire was strung across the courtyard. Paper lanterns were hanging from the wires, spheres of vivid orange that blew and trembled in the snow and the thin wind; the sea-grey clouds raced across the sky and the orange lanterns shivered against them. The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
Mihika’s 2025 Year in Books
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