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“The things that bring couples together will always terrify me more than the things that tear us apart. They will always be harder to explain. They will always keep me up later. Love gone wrong has inspired so many great songs, but somehow, love going right is what's bizarre. It exposes deep freakcraft in the universe. As far as I'm concerned, 'some people are very kind' is the scariest line Bob Dylan ever wrote. Compared to that, his breakup songs are kid stuff. Some people are very kind and there's nothing in the universe to explain why.
It's a mystery how people lose each other--but to me, it's an even stranger mystery we manage to stay together, or to collide together at all.”
― Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke
It's a mystery how people lose each other--but to me, it's an even stranger mystery we manage to stay together, or to collide together at all.”
― Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke
“If all music did was bring the past alive, that would be fine. You can hide away in music and let it recapture memories of things that used to be. But music is greedy and it wants more of your heart than that. It demands the future, your future. Music wants the rest of your life. So you can't rest easy. At any moment, a song can come out of nowhere to shake you up, jump-start your emotions, ruin your life.”
― Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke
― Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke
“Trying to live in the past didn't work for me, and it's only now that I fully realize I'm incredibly lucky it didn't. Because it would have been all too sad to miss out on right now. That would have turned the past into a fraud. It would have meant all my happy memories were a lie. It would have meant all that time and all that love was a waste, leading up to a wasted future. It would have been the ultimate betrayal of everything I thought my whole life was about and everyone I cared about. All the people who loved me, in all the times and places of my life—all the people who made a lover out of me—they would have all been wrong about me. And it could have happened easily, just like that. It's scary to think of how I could have gotten stuck pining for the past. I was lucky to get a second chance. I thought I was too late, but it turns out I was just in time.”
― Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke
― Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke
Melissa’s 2025 Year in Books
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522 books
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561 books
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176 books
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245 books
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878 books
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626 books
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171 friends
1,989 books
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