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“In her essay “On Grief” Jennifer Senior quotes a therapist who likens the survivors of loss to passengers on a plane that has crashed into a mountaintop and must find their way down. All have broken bones; none can assist the others. Each will have to make it down alone.”
― Memorial Days
― Memorial Days
“Maybe war never really ends.”
― Sing to Me: A Novel
― Sing to Me: A Novel
“And all that burgeoning physicality is held within yourself as a sort of secret, even as it is also the actual surface that you present to the world, so that you’re left absurdly exposed, unsure whether the world knows everything about you or nothing, because you have no way of knowing whether these experiences that you’re having are universal or entirely specific”
― Flesh
― Flesh
“You’re afraid the real thing won’t match up to your memories of it,” Ramesh said. “And you’re absolutely right. That place stopped existing the moment you left. Maybe it didn’t even exist at all. Memory has a way of smoothing and polishing edges.”
― Water Moon
― Water Moon
“It seemed to me that to honor the sensitivity and peculiarity of my children—so that each could have as much space as possible to grow into his individual self—was the best I could do as a mother. Yes, I loved them, and I still love them, but more important than loving is understanding and respecting them, and this includes, more than anything else, understanding and respecting their choices to end their lives.”
― Things in Nature Merely Grow
― Things in Nature Merely Grow
S’s 2025 Year in Books
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348 books
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16 friends
250 books
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2 friends
832 books
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53 books
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1 friend
96 books
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6 friends
309 books
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2 friends
172 books
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6 friends
29 books
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3 friends
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