“We had spent only a few weeks together, five years ago, but when you finally meet the person who in daydreams you had sculpted without words, the transparency of time becomes the color of hair, and shapeless years become the shape of lips.”
― The Secret Lives of People in Love
― The Secret Lives of People in Love
“The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.”
― Everything Beautiful Began After
― Everything Beautiful Began After
“You can’t explain love” he said out loud. “That’s how it gets ruined.”
― Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories
― Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories
“If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don't know then. But later you realize - that was the moment.”
―
―
Nancy’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Nancy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Cookbooks, Fiction, Historical fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Poetry, and Science fiction
Polls voted on by Nancy
Lists liked by Nancy



