My Favorite 2025 Quotes.....

So difficult to reduce all of my year's reading into 10 quotes. So instead, here are 12 (in no order!!!!)

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Middlemarch

This book, all of it. The recognition of the sacredness of daily life, and Dorothea’s simple, earnest journey inward, for God and for religion.

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The Melancholy of Resistance

I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a more beautiful description of sleep.

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Independent People

This is actually a paragraph that describes day, life, death, childhood, and old age (and there's probably much more). So it's one paragraph that describes all of humanity

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Stone Diaries

All the unfinished conversations..

Daisy's daughter's emotions by her mother's side. Just before her death

Daisy's husband died. This is the letter he left.

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And on the theme of death, The Book Against Death

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And of course, I can't leave without mentioning my beautiful, random, irrelevant, or unfortunate characters.... I actually think it's more appropriate not even to mention what books they came from