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“There are moments in life, so monumental and still, that the memory can never be retrieved without a catch to the throat or an interruption to the beat of the heart. Can never be retrieved without the rumbling disquiet of how close that moment came to not having happened at all.”
― Still Life
― Still Life
“We turn memories into stories, and if we don’t, we lose them. If the stories are gone, then the people are gone too.”
― What the Wind Knows
― What the Wind Knows
“We like beauty, don’t we? Something good on the eye cheers us. Does something to us on a cellular level, makes us feel alive and enriched. Beautiful art opens our eyes to the beauty of the world, Ulysses. It repositions our sight and judgment. Captures forever that which is fleeting. A meager stain in the corridors of history, that’s all we are. A little mark of scuff.”
― Still Life
― Still Life
“I loved churches the way I loved cemeteries and books. All three were markers of humanity, of time, of life.”
― What the Wind Knows
― What the Wind Knows
“When I struggled to get the words out, my grandfather would hand me a pen and paper. “If you can’t say them, write them. They last longer that way. Write all your words, Annie. Write them and give them somewhere to go.”
― What the Wind Knows
― What the Wind Knows
Zena’s 2024 Year in Books
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