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“Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story. They leave much more than the words.”
― A Map to the Door of No Return
― A Map to the Door of No Return
“It’s hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God’s will. It’s hard to know what to do with your emptiness when you’re not supposed to have emptiness.”
― A Complicated Kindness
― A Complicated Kindness
“The house seemed almost without smells at all, pleasant or foul, leaving me to wonder if the upper class existed on a different sort of air from the rest of the world, a breeze piped into their homes from above the clouds, so clean you had to pay for it.”
― The Virgin Cure
― The Virgin Cure
“To move to a new place -- that's the greatest excitement. For a while you believe you carry nothing with you -- all is canceled from before, or cauterized, and you begin again and nothing will go wrong this time.”
― The Stone Angel
― The Stone Angel
“Mama stared at me not with sadness, but with pleading. She was thinner than I'd ever allowed myself to notice, looking more like a child than a woman. I wanted to believe she knew what was best for me. I wanted to believe she was like every other mother and that she loved me more than I loved her. I hoped, if I followed her wishes, I would finally make her happy.”
― The Virgin Cure
― The Virgin Cure
Lapis’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lapis’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
896 books
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348 friends
81 books
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81 friends
33 books
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18 friends
49 books
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24 friends
30 books
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77 friends
2 books
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2 friends
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