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Between his skin and hers, there was the smallest of spaces, barely enough for air, for
“Do you ever feel like you don’t know what you’re doing with your life?”
― 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
“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
“Something being over is not the same as something never having happened.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“I had left myself no one to confine in, no one who would feel any sympathy for what I'd done. And after all that, he was in love with someone else. I screwed my eyes shut and presses my head down hard into the pillow. I thought of the night before, when he told me that he wanted me, how it felt then. Just admit it, I thought. He doesn't love you. That's what hurts.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
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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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