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I need language to live, like food—lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt it before.
“I had been hiding for so long I didn’t believe it possible that someone could see me. But someone had. And that felt even worse.”
― Slanting Towards the Sea
― Slanting Towards the Sea
“So much of seeing is in that willingness to look.”
― Slanting Towards the Sea
― Slanting Towards the Sea
“It seems to me we’ve always been, and always will be, two islands bathing in the same sea with our backs to each other—him facing the sun, me facing the moon, both of us resenting the light the other got. But one of those lights has gone out already, and now the other one is fading too. I guess where it leaves us, then, is in the dark.”
― Slanting Towards the Sea
― Slanting Towards the Sea
ali’s 2025 Year in Books
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