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"Can’t decide if I’m gonna finish this book or not. I really want to get to the end but feeling bogged down in these circus descriptions. Fingers crossed the pace picks up" — Jul 11, 2024 07:37PM
"Can’t decide if I’m gonna finish this book or not. I really want to get to the end but feeling bogged down in these circus descriptions. Fingers crossed the pace picks up" — Jul 11, 2024 07:37PM
They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?
“We have good days and bad days. You told me, once, to just remember to breathe. As long as you can do that, you’re doing something Good, you said. Getting rid of the old, and letting in the new. And, therefore, moving forward. Making progress. That’s all you have to do to move forward, sometimes, you said, just breathe. So don’t worry, Etta, if nothing else, I am still breathing.”
― Etta and Otto and Russel and James
― Etta and Otto and Russel and James
“And I will be forever changed by the people I have met and their bravery, their courage and their light.”
― The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
― The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
“We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“A lot of times when I think I’m being self-sufficient, I’m really just learning to live without the things that I need.”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
“I’ve just never met someone like you," as if I were a stranger from another town or an eccentric guest accompanying a mutual friend to a dinner party. It was a strange thought to hear from the mouth of the woman who had birthed and raised me, with whom I shared a home for eighteen years, someone who was half me. My mother had struggled to understand me just as I struggled to understand her. Thrown as we were on opposite sides of a fault line—generational, cultural, linguistic—we wandered lost without a reference point, each of us unintelligible to the other’s expectations, until these past few years when we had just begun to unlock the mystery, carve the psychic space to accommodate each other, appreciate the differences between us, linger in our refracted commonalities. Then, what would have been the most fruitful years of understanding were cut violently short, and I was left alone to decipher the secrets of inheritance without its key.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
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