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“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
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“Confía en el tiempo, que suele dar dulces salidas a muchas amargas dificultades...”
― El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha
― El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha
“Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth.... Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words and they backhand them across the net.”
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“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“This must be the taste of Language—
the tongue mapped by many colors,
parsed by the vowels of memory, the roof
of the mouth the dome of a world
circumscribed by consonants, whose edges
suggest the sour-sweetness of oranges,
the bittermelon’s green rind, the river-
scent of mangoes all the way to the grove.”
― Skin of Water: Selected Poems
the tongue mapped by many colors,
parsed by the vowels of memory, the roof
of the mouth the dome of a world
circumscribed by consonants, whose edges
suggest the sour-sweetness of oranges,
the bittermelon’s green rind, the river-
scent of mangoes all the way to the grove.”
― Skin of Water: Selected Poems
Susan’s 2025 Year in Books
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