Monica Perez

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Book cover for In the Café of Lost Youth (New York Review Books Classics)
When I look up “bohemian” in the dictionary, I find: A person who leads a wandering life, without rules or worries about the next day.
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Toshikazu Kawaguchi
“She wanted to do things without having to worry what others thought.
She simply lived for her freedom.”
Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Emily Henry
“You can't force a person to show up, but you can learn a lesson when they don't”
Emily Henry, Funny Story

James Baldwin
“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light.”
James Baldwin, Nothing Personal
tags: love

Toshikazu Kawaguchi
“At the end of the day, whether one returns to the past or travels to the future, the present doesn't change.”
Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Elif Shafak
“You don't share a language, you think, and then you realise, grief is a language. We understand each other, people with troubled pasts.”
Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
tags: grief

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