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Irene
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by Robert Frost
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“All cherry trees?” “Yes, all of them. My wife loved them.” “They must be beautiful in the spring.” “They are crawling with insects. In the fall there are dead leaves all over the place, and in winter the bare branches are bleak and
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“It’s so weird when people don’t go outside to enjoy the rain, or to see a rainbow when it appears, because they’re ‘in the middle of something’. It’s like, I’m sorry? Do you have better things to do? Like, what better things are there to do? What pressing or urgent matters could they possibly be to attend to? It’s fucking raining! There might be a fucking rainbow! Beings from other planets and dimensions would do anything to be a part of this into witness this shit! Get outside, dammit!”
― A Room Called Earth
― A Room Called Earth
“Before there is science, there are stories to explain the world. They make it happier somehow.”
― American Girl: Memories That Made Me
― American Girl: Memories That Made Me
“People are obsessed with what they don't allow themselves to have, and then they become controlled by it. Forbidden fruit is everyone's main meal.”
― A Room Called Earth
― A Room Called Earth
“I worry that intimacy and tenderness are becoming impossible ideals, rather than lived experiences. Surviving on this planet right now seems to be more about figuring out how to withstand being violated and exploited than it is about cultivating fulfilling relationships with ourselves, and with others.”
― A Room Called Earth
― A Room Called Earth
“It's important to resist the urge to put things we can't comprehend into cages and to try to make them dance for us.”
― A Room Called Earth
― A Room Called Earth
Irene’s 2025 Year in Books
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Adult Fiction, Art, Biography, Children's, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Suspense, Travel, science-fiction-fantasy, german-literature, european-literature, scandinavian-literature, and cozy-mystery
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