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“My life and most people's lives are a series of little miracles -- strange coincidences which spring from uncontrollable impulses and give rise to incomprehensible dreams. We spend a lot of time pretending that we are normal, but underneath the surface each one of us knows that he or she is unique.”
― My Week with Marilyn
― My Week with Marilyn
“If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had reached that sweet depth where two people communicate more often in silence than in words: an affectionate quietness replaces the tensions, the unrelaxed chatter and chasing about that produce a friendship’s more showy, more, in the surface sense, dramatic moments.”
― Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
― Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
Katya’s 2025 Year in Books
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