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Marlena May
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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
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“Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud...”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?
Doesn't that make life a story?”
― Life of Pi
Doesn't that make life a story?”
― Life of Pi
“Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
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Forever Young Adult-Boston Book Club
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Boston book club for readers of foreveryoungadult.com and fans of YA. We meet up in the Boston area on the 2nd Thursday of every month.
Books & Brews
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Marlena’s 2025 Year in Books
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