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“What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a given time and place.”
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“Nostalgia is an affliction. Life a fever or a cancer, the longing for what had vanished wasting a person away. Not just the unbearable losses, but the small things as well.”
― Salt Houses
― Salt Houses
“I was born a few months before the Nakba. You know this. You know what it means? It means it was already my reality. I didn’t know what it was before.”
― Enter Ghost
― Enter Ghost
“What is a life? A series of yeses and noes, photographs you shove in a drawer somewhere, loves you think will save you but that cannot. Continuing to move, enduring, not stopping even when there is pain. That's all life is, he wants to tell her. It's continuing.”
― Salt Houses
― Salt Houses
“I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Melissa E.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Melissa E.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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