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“All my life, longings lived inside me, rising up like nocturnes to wail and sing through the night. That my husband bent his heart to mine on our thin straw mat and listened was the kindness I most loved in him. What he heard was my life begging to be born.”
― The Book of Longings
― The Book of Longings
“When I am dust, sing these words over my bones: she was a voice.”
― The Book of Longings
― The Book of Longings
“Soul Mates
I don’t know how you are so familiar to me—or why it feels less like I am getting to know you and more as though I am remembering who you are. How every smile, every whisper brings me closer to the impossible conclusion that I have known you before, I have loved you before—in another time, a different place, some other existence.”
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I don’t know how you are so familiar to me—or why it feels less like I am getting to know you and more as though I am remembering who you are. How every smile, every whisper brings me closer to the impossible conclusion that I have known you before, I have loved you before—in another time, a different place, some other existence.”
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“Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood.”
― The Illusion
― The Illusion
Lily’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lily’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
812 books
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4 friends
176 books
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88 friends
48 books
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576 friends
83 books
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4 friends
238 books
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7 friends
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