“A letter to the beloved is like the ink kissing the paper. (Une lettre à l'aimée, c'est - L'encre embrassant le papier)”
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“Know that blank pages feel the urge of the ink as much as tears paint a different pain, changes”
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“The book did not say anything about a statue, valuable or otherwise, and so I stopped reading about the Bombinating Beast and got interested in the chapter about the Stain'd witches, who had ink instead of blood in their veins. I wondered what they kept in their pens.”
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“Look at how beautiful this ink is. Now do you understand why I needed clear water? Water is the brightness of the day and the whiteness of the paper. Black is the velvet of night and the satiny ink of the paintbrush. If you know how to make ink correctly, you will never again be afraid of nightmares." Hokusai (The Old Man Mad About Drawing)”
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Nichole’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Nichole’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Chick-lit, Christian, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror, Manga, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Science, Spirituality, and Young-adult
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