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Marissa Lopez
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You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language. Why are my sides so sore and achy? It’s from crying, I’m told. I did not know that we cry with our muscles. The pain is not surprising, but
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“Her love is not flawless, a solitaire sparkling from a smooth hand. Rather it reminds me of a geode - rough and worn by time yet cracked, occasionally, to reveal a vibrant cluster of crystals.”
― Banyan Moon
― Banyan Moon
“Everything feels half written. Like a storybook with invisible ink. It disappears before I figure out what I want the future to look like.'
'Not all stories have to be neat. Some can be messy and unfinished, and we can let other people pick up the line for us.”
― Banyan Moon
'Not all stories have to be neat. Some can be messy and unfinished, and we can let other people pick up the line for us.”
― Banyan Moon
“I wonder if you can inherit evil.'
'Maybe. Or maybe it's not something you inherit, but something that runs through you, another person's trauma, their violence. It sits below the skin until you name it. And you root it out like a cancer.”
― Banyan Moon
'Maybe. Or maybe it's not something you inherit, but something that runs through you, another person's trauma, their violence. It sits below the skin until you name it. And you root it out like a cancer.”
― Banyan Moon
“thought about how, for so much of my life, I’d survived by staying quiet, making myself small enough to fly under the radar. I decided then that I no longer wanted to be quiet. I wanted to be loud and colorful and every piece of myself at any one time. As I lay there, I began to dream of”
― How We Named the Stars
― How We Named the Stars
“Our lives slid together like tectonic plates, ever so infinitesimally, until we couldn't picture them apart.”
― Banyan Moon
― Banyan Moon
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Marissa’s 2025 Year in Books
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692 books
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116 books
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