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Taylor Jenkins Reid
“... someone who insists on the perfect conditions to make art isn't an artist. They're an asshole.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

Nina George
“We are immortal in the dreams of our loved ones. And our dead live on after their deaths in our dreams.”
Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

Mari Evans
“When
I die
I'm sure
I will have a
Big Funeral.

Curiosity
seekers...
coming to see
if I
am really
Dead
or just
trying to make
Trouble.”
Mari Evans
tags: poem

Nina George
“Do you know that there's a halfway world between each ending and each new beginning? It's called the hurting time, Jean Perdu. It's a bog; it's where your dreams and worries and forgotten plans gather. Your steps are heavier during that time. Don't underestimate the transition, Jeanno, between farewell and new departure. Give yourself the time you need. Some thresholds are too wide to be taken in one stride.”
Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

Nina George
“Kästner was one reason I called my book barge the Literary Apothecary,” said Perdu. “I wanted to treat feelings that are not recognized as afflictions and are never diagnosed by doctors. All those little feelings and emotions no therapist is interested in, because they are apparently too minor and intangible. The feeling that washes over you when another summer nears its end. Or when you recognize that you haven’t got your whole life left to find out where you belong. Or the slight sense of grief when a friendship doesn’t develop as you thought, and you have to continue your search for a lifelong companion. Or those birthday morning blues. Nostalgia for the air of your childhood. Things like that.”
Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

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