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“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.”
― Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.”
― Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
“There is a certain beauty in chaos, magnificence in the uncontrollable.”
― We Hunt the Flame
― We Hunt the Flame
“Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.”
― The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
― The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
“He had looked at her then and again saw something ugly about himself reflected back at him in her gaze”
― So Late in the Day
― So Late in the Day
“Somehow I sensed what was coming for me even then. Really, though, what girl doesn’t? It looms over you, that threat of violence. They drill the danger into your head until it starts to feel inevitable. You grow up wondering when it’s finally going to happen.”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa
Mariam’s 2025 Year in Books
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