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“When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where can one find more noble distraction, more entertaining company, more delightful enchantment than in literature?”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.”
― Shanghai Girls
― Shanghai Girls
“As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering.”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one's own, one's certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship ...”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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Brenda’s 2025 Year in Books
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