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“I love how, whenever you tell me a story, you go backwards and forwards and tell me everything else that could possibly be happening in every direction, like an explosion. Like a flower blooming.”
― Grasshopper Jungle
― Grasshopper Jungle
“All good books are about everything, abbreviated.”
― Grasshopper Jungle
― Grasshopper Jungle
“They were both so beautiful, and their sound, as we said them to each other above the music, made our chests fill up with something electric and buzzing, like love and magic.”
― Grasshopper Jungle
― Grasshopper Jungle
“We made this stupid rule and this stupid rule.
Boys are not allowed to love each other.
Then we painted a bison on the wall.”
― Grasshopper Jungle
Boys are not allowed to love each other.
Then we painted a bison on the wall.”
― Grasshopper Jungle
“It was warm, and outside the sound of insects in the night was electric.
The music sounded better than anything I'd ever heard.
I had never been so happy in my life.
I played with the little silver medal against my bare chest.
I wrote poetry while we sat there like that in the dark and talked about our favorite poems and books and laughed and smoked.”
― Grasshopper Jungle
The music sounded better than anything I'd ever heard.
I had never been so happy in my life.
I played with the little silver medal against my bare chest.
I wrote poetry while we sat there like that in the dark and talked about our favorite poems and books and laughed and smoked.”
― Grasshopper Jungle
Rhys’s 2025 Year in Books
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