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“What else is life but a string of outcomes beyond our control?”
“I am forty years old, and I have only just learned this fundamental truth myself.
Love. In the best of times, it is a dream. In the worst of times, a salvation.
I am in love. There it is. I have written it down. Soon I will say it out loud. To him.
I am in love. As crazy and ridiculous and implausible as it sounds, I am in love. And I am loved in return.
And this --love-- gives me the courage I need for today.”
― The Four Winds
Love. In the best of times, it is a dream. In the worst of times, a salvation.
I am in love. There it is. I have written it down. Soon I will say it out loud. To him.
I am in love. As crazy and ridiculous and implausible as it sounds, I am in love. And I am loved in return.
And this --love-- gives me the courage I need for today.”
― The Four Winds
“His pulse hammers. Somewhere on board his brother's heart beats, too. Please, God. The hearth that heat inside his own before they'd even drawn breath. This friend he'd shared a lifetime with. Only a wall of war-thick steel and military protection between them.”
― Whose Waves These Are
― Whose Waves These Are
“Harvest Time
When Daddy's garden is ready
it is filled with words that make me laugh
when I say them --
pole beans and tomatoes, okra and corn
sweet peas and sugar snaps,
lettuce and squash.
Who could have imagined
so much color that the ground disappears
and we are left
walking through an autumn's worth
of crazy words
that beneath the magic of my grandmother's hands
become
side dishes.”
― Brown Girl Dreaming
When Daddy's garden is ready
it is filled with words that make me laugh
when I say them --
pole beans and tomatoes, okra and corn
sweet peas and sugar snaps,
lettuce and squash.
Who could have imagined
so much color that the ground disappears
and we are left
walking through an autumn's worth
of crazy words
that beneath the magic of my grandmother's hands
become
side dishes.”
― Brown Girl Dreaming
“But if the "ordinary people" do nothing then who is going to step forward and take a stand against the Nazis? Not the politicians in Vichy who are puppets of the new regime; and not the French army whose battalions lie rotting in shallow graves along the Eastern Front. We are all that is left, Claire. Ordinary people like you and me.”
― The Dressmaker's Gift
― The Dressmaker's Gift
“I haven't left my post!" she wanted to shout. "We're here." She needed to convince them that the ALP must remain open. "Libraries are lungs," she scrawled, her pen barely able to keep with her ideas. "Books the fresh air breathed in to keep the heart beating, to keep the brain imagining, to keep home alive. Subscribers depend on us for news, for community. Soldiers need books, need to know their friends at the library care. Our work is too important to stop now."
...."We are giving the students what they need, the public, the books they want, and the soldiers, what we can. It is after all, something, to continue to hold on, to hope for a wider contribution to humanity.”
― The Paris Library
...."We are giving the students what they need, the public, the books they want, and the soldiers, what we can. It is after all, something, to continue to hold on, to hope for a wider contribution to humanity.”
― The Paris Library
Jessica’s 2025 Year in Books
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