“All really interesting girls invent themselves.”
― Bright Young Things
― Bright Young Things
“A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
“She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
Ashley ’s 2025 Year in Books
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