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“[Esme] 'And then I was born and then she [her mother Lily] died.'
[Edith 'Ditte' Thompson, her godmother] 'Yes.'
'But when we talk about her, she comes to life.'
'Never forget that Esme. Words are our tools of resurrection.”
― The Dictionary of Lost Words
[Edith 'Ditte' Thompson, her godmother] 'Yes.'
'But when we talk about her, she comes to life.'
'Never forget that Esme. Words are our tools of resurrection.”
― The Dictionary of Lost Words
“The touchstones that stand in our memory rarely match up to reality. They suffer from the distortion of time, with a tendency to become bigger and grander whenever we call them to mind.”
― The Sweet Taste of Muscadines
― The Sweet Taste of Muscadines
“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
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“I took it and opened it up into a perfect square, and then I buried my face in it. It was absorbent and smelled of church. It was like crying onto the hem of the pope's best dress.”
― The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
― The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
“I really am fine,” Humphrey said in the corridor. “I just got old by accident.”
― The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
― The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
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This January, I will be hosting a readalong of George Orwell's classic Animal Farm. Please do join in if you would like to read this book or learn a b ...more
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