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“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
“Kaye laughs and drinks out of chipped mugs and lets her long green pixie fingers trace patterns on Roiben’s skin. In those moments, with the smell of her in his throat, stronger than all the iron in the world, he feels as raw and trembling as something newly born.”
― The Poison Eaters and Other Stories
― The Poison Eaters and Other Stories
“Unlike my mother, who saw me, my father could not. The number one evil that we face is unconsciousness. And now that I am older, I understand the wisdom that was always waiting for me, so simple and so obvious but so hard to learn—
His loss.”
― The House of Hidden Meanings
His loss.”
― The House of Hidden Meanings
“Everyone was supervising her now, it seemed. She had been an expect, an uncontested power; now she had to ask her ten-year-old daughter whether she’d eaten lunch. That winter was long and dark, and I wondered if sometimes Mother was staying in bed even when she didn’t have a migraine.”
― Educated
― Educated
“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. Of course we have our moments of depression; but there are other moments too, when time, unmeasured by the clock, runs on into eternity and, catching his smile, I know we are together, we march in unison, no clash of thought or of opinion makes a barrier between us.”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
madi!’s 2025 Year in Books
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316 books
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820 books
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596 books
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29 books
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210 books
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116 books
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