“Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“You're going to be something, you and that language you speak on paper.”
― Pictures of Hollis Woods
― Pictures of Hollis Woods
“Our lives are one masked ball.”
― The Phantom of the Opera
― The Phantom of the Opera
“I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of things that were not me, and I was certain, rock-solid, unshakeably certain, that I was the most important thing in creation. There was nothing that was more important to me than I was.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Sarah Kate’s 2025 Year in Books
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