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Reading a novel, he supposes, is like playing a game where all the choices have been made for you ahead of time by someone who is much better at this particular game.
“Death has a beauty to it. We don’t see it because we don’t want to. And that makes sense. Why would we want to focus on something that takes us away from everything we know? How do we even begin to understand that there’s more than what we see?”
― Under the Whispering Door
― Under the Whispering Door
“There’s only one way to run away from your own story, and that’s to sneak into someone else’s.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“Standing beside her grandmother's deathbed, woolen dress still smelling of black logwood dye, Ade had felt the way a sapling might as it watched one of the old forest giants come crashing magnificently to rest: awed, and perhaps a little frightened. But when Mama Larson's final breath rattled from her ribs, Ade discovered the same thing the young sapling would have: in the absence of the old tree, there was a hole in the canopy above her.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Cassi’s 2024 Year in Books
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