Hellen
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“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
“...Reality was one step out of line, a cardigan with its buttons done up wrong.”
― Sputnik Sweetheart
― Sputnik Sweetheart
“Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye.
Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.”
― A Tale for the Time Being
Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.”
― A Tale for the Time Being
“Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.”
― A Tale for the Time Being
― A Tale for the Time Being
“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
Hellen’s 2025 Year in Books
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