“In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.”
― The House of the Seven Gables
― The House of the Seven Gables
“Your body is the piece of the universe you've been given; as long as you have a pulse, it presents you with an ongoing shower of immediate sensate experiences.”
― Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
― Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
“She did not need a library; she was a library.”
― The Signature of All Things
― The Signature of All Things
“At no point in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning.”
― The Signature of All Things
― The Signature of All Things
Alyssa’s 2025 Year in Books
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