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Holly is currently reading

The New People

by Andrea Uptmor

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2026-books, audiobook, contemporary, fiction, lgbt, libby, library-book, lit-fic

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“As for me, I believe that if there's a God - and I am as neutral on the subject as is possible - then the most basic proof of His existence is black humor. What else explains it, that odd, reliable comfort that billows up at the worst moments, like a beautiful sunset woven out of the smoke over a bombed city.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination

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“I want a book that acknowledges that life goes on, but death goes on too, that a person who is dead is a long, long story. You move on from it, , but the death will never disappear from view.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination

tags: grief-and-loss

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“Because that's all art is, in the end. One person trying to get another person they have never met to fall in love with them.”
― Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

tags: art, falling-in-love

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“Death is the most transformative event in anyone’s existence, she thought, yet once it has happened, it doesn’t matter to that person anymore. There’s no person left. At that point, any significance it has fragments and scatters. Its impact is diffused among the survivors.”
― Alexandra Andrews, Who Is Maud Dixon?

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“Who on earth can explain, in words alone, the great gutting tenderness of holding your child in your arms? The animal feeling of it—the baby’s soft muzzle, the baby’s new skin (which throws into relief the wear your own has endured), the little hand reaching up to your face, searching for family. The quick small pats, light as moths, that land on your cheek and chest.”
― Liz Moore, Long Bright River

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