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“The sound of crickets, the feel of warm dried grass on the soles of his feet and the scent of baked earth pleased him. The big thick glass was icy in his hands. When he set it down, the tinkle of the ice cubes sounded personal.”
― Lessons
― Lessons
“Time simply floated open and started to expand. Time held the two of us in light, inside a space so vast it might have reached the heavens, and turned eternal.”
― Dead-End Memories: Stories
― Dead-End Memories: Stories
“But take a good, hard look at yourselves and ask the question: isn't this feeling of being deeply anchored in France the same way French Jews felt in 1942? A lot of them had fought for this country in the First World War. And yet they were put on those trains.”
― The Postcard
― The Postcard
“I carry within me, inscribed in the very cells of my body, the memory of an experience of danger so violent that sometimes I think I really lived it myself, or that I'll be forced to relive it one day.”
― The Postcard
― The Postcard
“In times of peace, it is the Ephraims who are the backbone of a people - because they have children and raise them with love, patience, and intelligence, day by day. They are the guarantors of a functioning society. But in times of chaos, it is the Emmanuels who save their people - because they refuse to submit to any rule and because they sow their oats in other countries, creating children they will never acknowledge... but who will survive them.”
― The Postcard
― The Postcard
Joanna’s 2025 Year in Books
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633 books
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222 friends
811 books
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47 friends
926 books
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40 friends
545 books
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822 books
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