Monica
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“One and one and one and one doesn't equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together. They cannot be exchanged, one for the other. They cannot replace each other.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilized. I wish it showed me in a better light, if not happier, than at least more active, less hesitant, less distracted by trivia. I wish it had more shape. I wish t were about love, or about sudden realizations important to one’s life, or even about sunsets, birds, rainstorms, or snow. I’m sorry there is so much pain in this story. I’m sorry it’s in fragments, like a body caught in crossfire or pulled apart by force. But there is nothing I can do to change it.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“I’m sorry there is so much pain in this story. I’m sorry it’s in fragments, like a body caught in crossfire or pulled apart by force. But there is nothing I can do to change it.
I’ve tried to put some of the good things in as well. Flowers, for instance, because where would we be without them?”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
I’ve tried to put some of the good things in as well. Flowers, for instance, because where would we be without them?”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it's one of the shapes money takes when it freezes. Money has trickled through this room for years and years, as if through an underground cavern, crusting and hardening like stalactites into these forms.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
Monica’s 2025 Year in Books
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