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There was something about the music on that tape. It felt different. Like, it set her lungs and her stomach on edge. There was something exciting about it, and something nervous. It made Eleanor feel like everything, like the world, wasn’t
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“But black eyes need no translating; the mind itself throws a shadow upon them. In them thought opens or shuts, shines forth or goes out in darkness, hangs steadfast like the setting moon or like the swift and restless lightning illumines all quarters of the sky. They who from birth have had no other speech than the trembling of their lips learn a language of the eyes, endless in expression, deep as the sea, clear as the heavens, wherein play dawn and sunset, light and shadow.”
― Stories from Tagore
― Stories from Tagore
“Not for you,” Lila replies ardently, “you’re my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
“At last, when no one else came, Mother Sleep soothed with her soft caresses the wounded heart of the motherless lad. Nilkanta”
― Stories from Tagore
― Stories from Tagore
“But the child's faith never admits defeat, and it would snatch at the mantle of death itself to turn him back.”
― Stories from Tagore
― Stories from Tagore
“She meant something different: she wanted to vanish; she wanted every one of her cells to disappear, nothing of her ever to be found. And since I know her well, or at least I think I know her, I take it for granted that she has found a way to disappear, to leave not so much as a hair anywhere in this world.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
Pallavi’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Pallavi’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,161 books
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945 friends
276 books
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1,935 friends
1,083 books
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643 friends
30 books
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186 friends
80 books
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319 friends
142 books
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455 friends
182 books
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266 friends
9 books
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23 friends
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