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“Words trembled on the tip of Hermione’s tongue. All week she’d kept them inside, trying to wall herself off, keep herself safe. But she didn’t know how. Her entire life it had been this way. Once she cared, she couldn’t make it stop. She was wholehearted; she was her whole heart.”
― The Disappearances of Draco Malfoy
― The Disappearances of Draco Malfoy
“I closed my eyes and let the music flow through me, cleansing my soul of all fear and sin and reminding me that I am always better than I think and stronger than I believe.”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“I can’t even handle love, there’s no way I can handle it being taken away. I won’t survive it. Please. Please. Please!”
I said that I had something to say to her, which made her listen in a way that she didn’t when I simply said things without the preface. Even though the preface meant nothing, it calmed her, just as it calmed real people, for the same no-reason.
I told her what people tell people. That this was what it felt like when love was taken away—but that it wasn’t the truth, it was just a feeling. It would pass. It would take time.
She would recharge.
She didn’t believe me.
No one ever believes it, I said. That’s part of what the feeling is.”
― One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
I said that I had something to say to her, which made her listen in a way that she didn’t when I simply said things without the preface. Even though the preface meant nothing, it calmed her, just as it calmed real people, for the same no-reason.
I told her what people tell people. That this was what it felt like when love was taken away—but that it wasn’t the truth, it was just a feeling. It would pass. It would take time.
She would recharge.
She didn’t believe me.
No one ever believes it, I said. That’s part of what the feeling is.”
― One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
“In my opinion, there are two types of perfect. The first is the type that seems so obvious and intuitive to you and everyone else that in a perfect world it would simply be considered standard; but, in reality, in our flawed world, what should be considered standard is actually so rare that it has to be elevated to the level of “perfect.” This is the type of perfect that makes you and most other people think, “Why isn’t everything like this? Why is it so hard to find …” a black V-neck cotton sweater, or a casual non-chain restaurant with comfortable booths, etc.—“that is just exactly the way everyone knows something like this should be?” “Perfect,” we all say with relief when we finally find something like this that is exactly as it should be. “Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”
The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.”
― One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.”
― One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
Shirley’s 2025 Year in Books
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