“And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.”
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“My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”
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“I am a tiny seashell
that has secretly drifted ashore
and carries the sound of the ocean
surging through its body.”
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that has secretly drifted ashore
and carries the sound of the ocean
surging through its body.”
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Alyssum’s 2025 Year in Books
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