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Ruby
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“every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas,
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“I would be Medusa, if it came to it, I resolved. If the gods held me accountable one day for the sins of someone else, if they came for me to punish a man’s actions, I would not hide away like Pasiphae. I would wear that coronet of snakes, and the world would shrink from me instead.”
― Ariadne
― Ariadne
“What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“he feels he isn’t so much living as he is merely existing,”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“I admired how she knew, well before I did, that the point of a child is not what you hope he will accomplish in your name but the pleasure that he will bring you, whatever form it comes in, even if it is a form that is barely recognizable as pleasure at all - and more important, the pleasure you will be privileged to bring him.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“What I did not know was that I had hit upon a truth of womanhood: However blameless the life we lead, the passions and the greed of men could bring us to ruin, and there was nothing we could do.”
― Ariadne
― Ariadne
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Ruby’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ruby’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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