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“Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.”
― Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss and the Musical 'Rent'
― Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss and the Musical 'Rent'
“Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. "Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.”
― The Namesake
― The Namesake
“There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding. ”
― Unaccustomed Earth
― Unaccustomed Earth
“Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”
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“To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on.”
― Everything Beautiful Began After
― Everything Beautiful Began After
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Jessica’s 2025 Year in Books
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