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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
― The White Album
― The White Album
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
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“The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion”
― In the Skin of a Lion
― In the Skin of a Lion
“The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet black bough.”
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Petals on a wet black bough.”
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“But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace.”
― Fugitive Pieces
― Fugitive Pieces
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Mel’s 2025 Year in Books
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