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“Sometimes, when it had been a hard day at school and the future looked unusually dark, Miss Matt would permit herself to cry luxuriously for half an hour; afterward she would wash her face, and dress and go out to some nice restaurant for dinner.”
― Dark Tales
― Dark Tales
“Romance sweetens the casual bitterness we can encounter; it heightens the mundane and makes the terrestrial supernatural.”
― Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold
― Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold
“Generations of sacrifice; hard work and harder living. So much suffered, so much forfeited, so much -- for this opportunity. For my life. And I've tried, tried living up to it. But after years of struggling, fighting against the current, I'm ready to slow my arms. Stop kicking. Breathe the water in. I'm exhausted. Perhaps it’s time to end this story. Ah - here’s Lou.”
― Assembly
― Assembly
“The destination always kills the journey and if we reduce life to a story, it can only be a bad one”
― Boulder
― Boulder
“Each man's life is like a pack of cards, and those we meet and sometimes love are shuffled with us. We find ourselves in the same suit held by the Hand of Fate. The game is played, we are discarded, and pass on.”
― Monte Verità
― Monte Verità
Barbara’s 2025 Year in Books
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