“If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone”
― Wizard and Glass
― Wizard and Glass
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.”
― The Solitude of Prime Numbers
― The Solitude of Prime Numbers
“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Monika’s 2025 Year in Books
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