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“The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it.”
― Monstrilio
― Monstrilio
“When we finished with our laps we hoist ourselves up out of the pool, dripping and refreshed, our equilibrium restored, ready to face another day on land.”
― The Swimmers
― The Swimmers
“We learn our first lessons about money as children, and these shape much of our ideas about it. We learn these lessons from our parents, but from others also. But I feel as if I have always been taught about money by everyone, every day of my life a lesson, whether I want it or not, in what money is and does.”
― How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
― How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
“In a great memoir, some aspect of the writer’s struggle for self often serves as the book’s organizing principle, and the narrator’s battle to become whole rages over the book’s trajectory.”
― The Art of Memoir
― The Art of Memoir
“Where did they go, all the gods and the beasts? The jackals and winged horses, sphinxes and fish, all those creatures that weighed our organs in the afterlife, fed on years ill-lived? What do they tow now, those creatures that carried the suns and the stars, drew the moon to its place in the firmament each night?”
― Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay
― Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay
Amanda’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Amanda’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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