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The Year of Magical Thinking

by Joan Didion

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Aug 19, 2022 03:04PM

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Blue Horses: Poems by Mary Oliver

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In a poem people want something fancy, but even more they want something inexplicable made plain, easy to swallow— not unlike a suddenly harmonic passage in an otherwise difficult and sometimes dissonant symphony— even if it is only for the ...more

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“something violated the organic structure of her brother, exercising over him a pressure so strong that it broke down his outlines, and the matter expanded like a magma, showing her what he was truly made of.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

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“The final stretch to finding me would be allowing that eight-year-old girl in, actively inviting her into every moment of my current existence to experience the joy she so longed for, letting her taste what it means to feel truly alive. The destination is finding a home for her. A place of peace where the past does not envelop the Viola of NOW, where I have ownership of my story.”
― Viola Davis, Finding Me

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