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One teary-eyed face after another, a chorus of voices low and somber: So sorry. We’re so, so very sorry. I do not wish for their sympathy—what I want is my Gertie back, and if no one can give me that, then, as far as I’m concerned, the
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“There is such beauty in resilience”
― Reckless
― Reckless
“It would be difficult and painful, and however it ended, it would end—but still, he could choose it. To live, to love; it was always a choice, and inherently a brave one, to face down certain doom with open arms.”
― Masters of Death
― Masters of Death
“All loss is not created equal”
― The Fisherman
― The Fisherman
“AS LONG AS I KEPT MOVING, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop. The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things it can kill. My body understood there was no safe place for me to be.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“We felt her loss the way you’d feel it if someone reached into the back of your mouth with a pair of pliers and tore out one of your molars; it was an open wound that ached all the way through you. The same way you couldn’t stop testing that spot where your tooth used to be”
― The Fisherman
― The Fisherman
Elise’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Elise’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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60 friends
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49 books
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203 books
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79 books
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8 books
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207 books
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23 friends
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