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“He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery...”
― Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
― Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
“A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.”
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“His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.”
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Ashley’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ashley’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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116 friends
436 books
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109 friends
3,041 books
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122 friends
97 books
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39 friends
772 books
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42 friends
3,251 books
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227 friends
1,280 books
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65 friends
768 books
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186 friends
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