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It’s what we will never know about the ones we love that binds us to them. I’d finally accepted that mystery is at the heart of love. That it’s our deep yearning to know the ones we love in ways that are ultimately impossible—we will never
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“I have to live, perhaps, till seventy years. As far as I know, I have good health. Half a century of existence may lie before me. How am I to occupy it? What am I to do to fill the interval of time which spreads between me and the grave?”
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“See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be”
― After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away
― After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Music at Night and Other Essays
― Music at Night and Other Essays
“Why did life put so much inside a woman and then keep her confined to smallness?”
― Cantoras
― Cantoras
“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
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Bee’s 2025 Year in Books
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