Alexandra

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Lunch Poems

by Frank O'Hara

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""515 Madison Avenue
door to heaven? portal
stopped realities and eternal licentiousness
or at least the jungle of impossible eagerness
your marble is bronze and your lianas elevator cables
swinging from the myth of ascending" (Rhapsody, p.37)

I need to go to New York and experience the city through O'Hara's eyes soon :(

(Side note—a bit random but these poems make me think of Caroline Polachek's lyrics!! LOVE this)" — Jan 07, 2026 02:06PM

Jan 02, 2026 08:34PM

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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

by John Berendt

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Dec 28, 2025 10:50AM

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Small Gods

by Terry Pratchett

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"I LOVE OM AND BRUTHA!!!

Okay but seriously this is such a perfect read to start 2026 with—it's absolutely hilarious and charming. I can't put it down!" — Jan 02, 2026 08:29PM

Dec 18, 2025 10:52AM

Alexandra’s Quotes

“I wanted to know whether you could ever fully know someone. If knowing how they were—how they moved and spoke and the faces they made and the things they tried not to look at—amounted to knowing them. Or if knowing things about them—where they’d been born, all the people they’d been, who they’d loved, the worlds they’d come from—added up to anything.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

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“You're mine and I'm yours. It's written in the stars.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

tags: coriolanus-snow, lucy-gray-baird

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“You are the culmination of every lightning strike and twist of fate.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

tags: inspirational, love, romance

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“Personally, I think she liked living there, between the pages with him. Always adding little bits of memory but never closing the door.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

tags: love, romance, wistfulness

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“He was always leaning on something, like he couldn’t bear to hold all his own weight upright for more than a second or two. He lounged, he sprawled, he hunched and reclined. He never simply stood or sat. In college, I’d thought he was lazy about everything except writing. Now I wondered if he was simply tired, if life had beaten him into a permanent slouch, folded him over himself so no one could get at the soft center, the kid who dreamed of running away on trains and living in the branches of a redwood.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

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