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Isabel
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“She was an old woman, but she managed to look like a young woman with a ravaging disease.”
― Housekeeping
― Housekeeping
“Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.”
― Housekeeping
― Housekeeping
“I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact I could have accepted, were it not true that, just when I had got used to the limits and dimensions of one moment, I was expelled into the next and made to wonder again if any shapes hid in its shadows.”
― Housekeeping
― Housekeeping
“I need a father. I need a mother. I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We anticipate (we know) that someone close to us could die, but we do not look beyond the few days or weeks that immediately follow such an imagined death. We misconstrue the nature of even those few days or weeks. We might expect if the death is sudden to feel shock. We do not expect this shock to be obliterative, dislocating to both body and mind. We might expect that we will be prostrate, inconsolable, crazy with loss. We do not expect to be literally crazy, cool customers who believe their husband is about to return and need his shoes.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
Isabel’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Isabel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
280 books
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7 friends
474 books
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77 books
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69 books
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52 books
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136 books
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81 books
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22 books
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