“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it. —Zora Neale Hurston”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
“Rage is not attractive in a girl.”
― How I Learned to Drive
― How I Learned to Drive
“Why not say straight out what is in one's heart, when one knows that one is not speaking idly? As it is every one seems harsher than he really is, as though all were afraid of doing injustice to their feelings, by being too quick to express them.”
― White Nights
― White Nights
“How many times have you said, "If I just looked a little different, I'd be drowning in love"?”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
“I would love you, I would love you so, that even if you still loved him, even if you went on loving the man I don’t know, you would never feel that my love was a burden to you. You would only feel every minute that at your side was beating a grateful, grateful heart, a warm heart ready for your sake.”
― White Nights
― White Nights
Steff’s 2025 Year in Books
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