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“Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“Want,â€� she told her, in a measured tone, ‘is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“Nothing irrevocable had yet been spoken, but there was only the barest margin of safety left them; each of them moving delicately along the outskirts of an open question, and, once spoken, such a question—as ‘Do you love me?’—could never be answered or forgotten.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature (or the ‘tonic of wildnessâ€� as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“The paradox of volcanoes was that they were symbols of destruction but also life. Once the lava slows and cools, it solidifies and then breaks down over time to become soil - rich, fertile soil.
She wasn't a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano. And like a volcano she couldn't run away from herself. She'd have to stay there and tend to that wasteland.
She could plant a forest inside herself.”
― The Midnight Library
She wasn't a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano. And like a volcano she couldn't run away from herself. She'd have to stay there and tend to that wasteland.
She could plant a forest inside herself.”
― The Midnight Library
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Aparna’s 2024 Year in Books
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Art, Children's, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Manga, Music, Mystery, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, and Young-adult
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