Hellen
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“Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. They were just the memories, leaking out.”
― A Tale for the Time Being
― A Tale for the Time Being
“Old Jiko is supercareful with her time. She does everything really really slowly, even when she's just sitting on the veranda, looking out at the dragonflies spinning lazily around the garden pond. She says that she does everything really really slowly in order to spread time out so that she'll have more of it and live longer, and then she laughs so that you know she is telling you a joke.”
― A Tale for the Time Being
― A Tale for the Time Being
“I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you. A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.”
― A Tale for the Time Being
― A Tale for the Time Being
“She smiled. “Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao.”
― A Tale for the Time Being
― A Tale for the Time Being
Hellen’s 2025 Year in Books
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