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“The broken spine of the book shows the webbing of binder's string, and my fingers have worn white spots in the cover.”
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“Alice hands Annawake a handkerchief. Young people never carry them, she's noticed. They haven't yet learned that heartbreak can catch up to you on any given day.”
― Pigs in Heaven
― Pigs in Heaven
“We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual, and unadulterated pleasure of reading. And if we do so, our reward is the discovery of the many hidden layers within these works that do not merely reflect reality but reveal a spectrum of truths, thus intrinsically going against the grain of totalitarian mindsets.”
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“I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that survive them, are more likely to be utterly lost not only to history but the family following them. Of course this is the fate of most souls, reducing entire lives, no matter how vivid and wonderful, to those sad black names on withering family trees, with half a date dangling after and a question mark.”
― The Secret Scripture
― The Secret Scripture
Churchlady’s 2025 Year in Books
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