“I always seemed to forget that needing your mother and getting what you needed from your”
― The Secrets She Keeps: A Novel
― The Secrets She Keeps: A Novel
“Socrates: The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
― The Hotel Nantucket
― The Hotel Nantucket
“Stories aren’t fiction. Stories are fabric. They’re the white sheets we drape over our ghosts so we can see them. —ROSCOE AVANGER, Sweet Mallow”
― Other Birds
― Other Birds
“That night, after we turned out the light, the red digital numbers of the bedside clock stared me down. I tried to ignore it, but of all household objects, bedside clocks are the most insistent, more than beeping refrigerators and door alarms, more than kitchen timers and even blaring radios. It’s the strong silent types that get you.”
― The Secrets She Keeps: A Novel
― The Secrets She Keeps: A Novel
“The day will end jubilant. Jubilant.”
― The Nature of Fragile Things
― The Nature of Fragile Things
Monica’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Monica’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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