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Iza's Ballad

by Magda Szabó

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May 25, 2026 11:09AM

“She's 68 now, and although she knows the idea of being put out to pasture is a phrase others associate with obsolescence and redundancy, for her it conjures lushes green fields filled with buttercups where she's free to roam.”
― Florence Knapp, The Names

tags: aging, freedom

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“I’ve noticed that about people who had stable childhoods. They like to create their own problems.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

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“The feeling catches me off guard.
Oh.
Love.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

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“That feeling of being read to, of being wrapped up in her voice, those words, whatever place the story had taken us to. It sounds stupid, but it was like a magic carpet.”
― Florence Knapp, The Names

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“I have loved you all my life,' I whisper. 'See you after the next bang.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

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