“These things that end (humans, winters, childhoods, love affairs, books) have sharp edges, painful as desire and packed with grief. Their hurt is precious and rich with meaning. It speaks to the work our bodies are really made for: feeling.”
― The Unwritten Book: An Investigation
― The Unwritten Book: An Investigation
“Every story is made up. Even the real ones.”
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
“Young person worry: What if nothing I do matters? Old person worry: What if everything I do does?”
― Weather
― Weather
“Everything is broken and messed up and completely fine. That is what life is. It's only the ratios that change. Usually on their own. As soon as you think that's it, it's going to be like this forever, they change again.”
― Sorrow and Bliss
― Sorrow and Bliss
“Sometimes it feels like we are only this: moments of knowing and unknowing one another. A sound that is foreign until it's familiar. A drill that's a scream until it's a drill. Sometimes it's nothing more than piecing together the ways in which our hearts have all broken over the same moments, but in different places. But that's romantic. Sometimes it's realer than that.”
― Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
― Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
Kristen’s 2025 Year in Books
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