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“She kept her voice gentle and her eyes down, for without such softening traits, Haejung's mother had often said, a woman's presence would be like a thorn and not a flower.”
― The Calligrapher's Daughter
― The Calligrapher's Daughter
“I sipped, thanking the particles of tea leaves for absorbing the sun’s heat on dewy terraced mountains, growing fat and lustrous, then drying in the same heat, preserving God’s grace in a fragile, fragrant medium for me to drink at this table.”
― The Calligrapher's Daughter
― The Calligrapher's Daughter
“It was incredible, this human capacity for learning, for hope, for love, that persisted like to box of light in my cell, the waters that flowed in my dreams. It was beyond my understanding. Tears came as I surrendered to this wonderment of being.”
― The Calligrapher's Daughter
― The Calligrapher's Daughter
“Zeus is never ridiculous. Because his dignity is of no concern to him.”
― Οι γάμοι του Κάδμου και της Αρμονίας
― Οι γάμοι του Κάδμου και της Αρμονίας
“Without having to confine my dreams to the destiny outlined in one’s name and the expectations bestowed during one’s naming, I was left free to embrace the natural turns of my character and to determine my own future, drawing from the deepest well on unnamed possibilities.”
― The Calligrapher's Daughter
― The Calligrapher's Daughter
Francesca’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Francesca’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
380 books
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30 friends
371 books
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569 books
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553 books
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190 books
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102 books
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55 books
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36 friends
174 books
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5 friends
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