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“It is not true that it doesn’t matter where you live, that you are in Hartford or Dallas merely yourself. Also it is not true that all are linked naturally to their regions. Many are flung down carelessly at birth and they experience the diminishment and sometimes the pleasant truculence of their random misplacement. (...) The stain of place hangs on not as a birthright but as a sort of artifice, a bit of cosmetic. I place myself among the imports, those jarring and jarred pieces that sit in the closet among the matching china sets.”
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“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“Let there be plot.”
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“229. I am writing all this down in blue ink, so as to remember that all words, not just some, are written in water.”
― Bluets
― Bluets
“(...) Mira now wondered if this was also true of herself and Annie, that sometimes a person is meant to move forward in the world with the one they love at a distance, and that the distance is there to make it more beautiful. To find the right distance from everything in life is the most important thing. To stand at the right distance, like God standing back from the canvas - for you can't see anything if you're too far back. (...) What is the actual distance of love?”
― Pure Colour
― Pure Colour
L’s 2025 Year in Books
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