“Perhaps that’s why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“Books are the best means—private, discreet, reliable—of overcoming reality.”
― In Other Words: A Memoir
― In Other Words: A Memoir
“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
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