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“When we are in love, we are both completely in danger and completely saved.”
― Love Letters to the Dead
― Love Letters to the Dead
“I knew what I wanted to run to. But it didn’t exist, so I didn’t leave.”
― Half of a Yellow Sun
― Half of a Yellow Sun
“Not that she wanted to have sex with him, necessarily. Only that she was happy to acknowledge, on this late-summer evening, that he was a man and she a woman, and if he found her attractive, that was all right with her.”
― How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits
― How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits
“She was almost in love with him. No, that’s impossible, she thought: either you are or you aren’t. Love’s the only thing in this world that is unequivocal. There are different kinds of love, certainly, but it’s a you-do or you-don’t proposition with them all." (Chapter 1)”
― Go Set a Watchman
― Go Set a Watchman
“It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tunnel, the night,
the pain, the love.
It ends or it doesn't.
If the sun never comes up,
you find a way to live
without it.
If they don’t come back,
you sleep in the middle of the bed,
learn how to make enough coffee
for yourself alone.
Adapt. Adjust.
It ends or it doesn't.
It ends or it doesn't.
We do not perish.”
―
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tunnel, the night,
the pain, the love.
It ends or it doesn't.
If the sun never comes up,
you find a way to live
without it.
If they don’t come back,
you sleep in the middle of the bed,
learn how to make enough coffee
for yourself alone.
Adapt. Adjust.
It ends or it doesn't.
It ends or it doesn't.
We do not perish.”
―
Lena’s 2025 Year in Books
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Biography, Classics, Crime, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Mystery, Philosophy, Psychology, Romance, Sports, and Young-adult
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