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“I thought: not even Lila, in spite of everything, has managed to escape from my mother's world.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
“let us be the kind of friends who hold hands, who when pressed palm-to-palm say yes, we are a couple of queers who spoon each other to sleep: 2 ginger cats warmly curled under blankets when the cold snap hits”
― Exactly As I Am
― Exactly As I Am
“I don’t know much about love, but I do know what it’s like to feel like you fit perfectly with someone else. I felt with Lea and Mom. And I don’t know if love can ever be more real than that.”
― Summer Bird Blue
― Summer Bird Blue
“You must let me
go first, Sue, because
I live in the Sea
always and know
the Road.
I would have drowned
twice to save
you sinking, dear,
If I could only
have covered your
Eyes so you wouldn't
have seen the Water.”
― Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
go first, Sue, because
I live in the Sea
always and know
the Road.
I would have drowned
twice to save
you sinking, dear,
If I could only
have covered your
Eyes so you wouldn't
have seen the Water.”
― Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
“Fuck romance—Lea was the love of my life. It was beautiful and horrible and messy and angry, but it was also the purest, most innocent kind of love I’ll ever feel.”
― Summer Bird Blue
― Summer Bird Blue
Paula’s 2023 Year in Books
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