“Second Fig
Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand:
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!”
― A Few Figs from Thistles
Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand:
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!”
― A Few Figs from Thistles
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty....A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes. His outrage grew and felt like power. For the first time he honestly wished he could work miracles.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“When every memory contains a universe, what does simple even mean?”
― Recursion
― Recursion
“Oh, some of us "loved" her. The Maginot Line. And Cholly loved her. I'm sure he did. He, at any rate, was the one who loved her enough to touch her, envelope her, give something of her filled the matrix of her agony with death. Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover's inward eye.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
Simran’s 2025 Year in Books
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