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“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“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
“You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.”
― Everything Beautiful Began After
― Everything Beautiful Began After
“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
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Jessica’s 2025 Year in Books
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