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“I hated them both, with the intensity of passionate love.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Vulnerability is our most accurate measure of courage.”
― The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage
― The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage
“When I read the Bible I picture you as Jesus, so maybe fainting in a church was a metaphor after all.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Real writers, and also painters, had to keep on looking at the ugly things they had done for good. I hated that everything I did was so ugly, but also that I lacked the courage to confront how ugly it was.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“You did not let me keep my name, so I will strip you of yours. In this world you are what I say you are, and I say you are a ghost, a long night's fever dream that I have finally woken up from. I say you are the smoke-wisp memory of a flame, thawing ice suffering under an early spring sun, a chalk ledger of depts being wiped clean. I say you do not have a name.”
― A Dowry of Blood
― A Dowry of Blood
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Melissa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Melissa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Favorite Genres
Art, Book Club, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical fiction, Memoir, Paranormal, Poetry, Psychology, Self help, Suspense, and Travel
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