Allie
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“All babies had that same wise look, as if they’d just come from another realm where they’d learned some beautiful truth they couldn’t share.”
― Nine Perfect Strangers
― Nine Perfect Strangers
“Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called “love of nature,” seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. It was strange to see Takver take a leaf into her hand, or even a rock. She became an extension of it, it of her.”
― The Dispossessed
― The Dispossessed
“Dad laughed, and despite two thousand volts of frustration tingling and twitching through my body, I laughed too. Everything about him that morning seemed relaxed and brighter than it had in months. He’d always been a moody guy. No one was funnier or more fun to play with than he was when in the right mood and you could feel the barometric pressure drop when he wasn’t.”
― A Head Full of Ghosts
― A Head Full of Ghosts
“All up and down the street the houses looked like any others—but inside them were people who might be happy, or taking refuge, or steeling themselves to go out into the world, searching for something better. So many lives she would never know about, unfolding behind those doors.”
― Little Fires Everywhere
― Little Fires Everywhere
“Are you tired?” he said, looking at me closely. Was I? I was wide awake, and yet part of me was so glassed-off and numb I was practically in a coma. “If you’d rather have company? Perhaps if I build a fire in the other room? Tell me what you want.” At this question, I felt a sharp rush of despair—for as bad as I felt there was nothing he could do for me, and from his face, I realized he knew that, too.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
Allie’s 2025 Year in Books
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