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Now I was an old woman, on my Wequetona porch; it was only the house itself and I that could bear witness to where we had been. The chain supporting the porch swing made a soft, rhythmic creaking sound as I sat there, a woman, a house, a
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“We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that's true, maybe all stories are worth hearing, but not all stories are worth telling.”
― Lighthousekeeping
― Lighthousekeeping
“He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil.
Psychosis: out of touch with reality.
Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.”
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Psychosis: out of touch with reality.
Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.”
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“As for myself, I am splintered by great waves. I am coloured glass from a church window long since shattered. I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.”
― Lighthousekeeping
― Lighthousekeeping
“We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.”
― Lighthousekeeping
― Lighthousekeeping
“There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people who think the only reason to read a book is to write a book; people should call up books from the dust and the dark and write thousands of words to be sent down to the dust and the dark which can be called up so that other people can send further thousands of words to join them in the dust and the dark. Sometimes a book can be called from the dust and the dark to produce a book which can be bought in shops, and perhaps it is interesting, but the people who buy it and read it because it is interesting are not serious people, if they were serious they would not care about the interest they would be writing thousands of words to consign to the dust and the dark. There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom.”
― The Last Samurai
― The Last Samurai
Emily’s 2025 Year in Books
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Art, Biography, Children's, Classics, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Historical fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Psychology, Young-adult, glbt, feminism, gender, gender-and-sexuality, sexuality, mental-illness, social-issues, realistic-fiction, sociology, transgender, women-and-gender-studies, womens-rights, islam, and womens-studies
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