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“In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover’s name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence. A woman in Cairo curves the white length of her body up from the bed and leans out of the window into a rainstorm to allow her nakedness to receive it”
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“The deepest sorrow, he thought. Where the only way to survive is to excavate everything.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
“I am black with love/ neither boy nor nightingale/ perfectly whole as a flower/ I desire without impulse”
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“Do you understand the sadness of geography?”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
“Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a large hole at portrait level in the far wall, caused by mortar-shell attack on the villa two months earlier. The rest of the room had adapted itself to this wound, accepting the habits of weather, evening stars, the sound of birds.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
Ernesta’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Ernesta’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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125 friends
286 books
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31 friends
5 books
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390 friends
180 books
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18 friends
65 books
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915 friends
1 book
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11 friends
2 books
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252 friends
4 books
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5 friends
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