I wonder how it is that we go along year after year never questioning the routines we’ve set for ourselves, never wondering if it could be different. I feel as if I’ve opened a door and discovered a way of life that makes so much more sense
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“Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”
― Miss Julie
― Miss Julie
“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
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“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― The Long Fall
― The Long Fall
“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― In Country Sleep, and Other Poems
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― In Country Sleep, and Other Poems
Melissa’s 2025 Year in Books
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