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Alyssa Phelps
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Grief was a hole. A portal to nothing. Grief was a walk so long Hazel forgot her own legs. It was a shock of blinding sun. A burst of remembering: sandals on pavement, a sleepy back seat, nails painted on the bathroom floor. Grief was a
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the kind of grief that feels as though it will take up permanent residence in your heart
“It was always a strange thing, coming home. Coming home meant that you had, at one point, left it and, in doing so, irreversibly changed. How odd, then, to be able to return to a place that would always be anchored in your notion of the past. How could this place still be there, if the you that once lived there no longer existed? Yet at the same time, in complete contradiction, seeing that said place had changed in your absence was nothing if not surreal.”
― A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
― A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
Alyssa’s 2025 Year in Books
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936 books
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