Paperback just came out, but this edition is gorgeous!!! Has everyone read this beautiful poem? Because everyone should!

This is such an interesting read right now!! Can't wait to see what Mitchell will do with these plot lines. (Instagram: _glassofbourbon)

I've been meaning to read this one for so long

"No father can completely want his daughter to be happy"
"That's harsh philosophy"
"No, it's harsh psychology"

I had the privilege to translate this book. Prior to that, I had read it thrice. I have cried while reading it perhaps 30 or 40 times. An epic of love and war so great, it makes all other love stories set during WWII utterly redundant.

It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we're talking about love.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The only things one never regrets are one's follies.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always'

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

I fell in love the way you fall asleep; slowly, and then all at once.

None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

"I tell you, it‘ll be a natural disaster: tidal wave, flood, earthquake.” […] Standing in the hall, I flinched at the thought, my fists balled, and I held in a whimper.

Ness I said Ness I will Ness

This is Claire Fuller's debut novel and it is fantastic. Eight year old Peggy is taken by her father to a cabin in the depths of a European forest, and she believes the rest of the world has disappeared. It's haunting tale, told in beautiful language

This was my first Ali Smith book, and all my expectations were met wonderfully. Ali Smith is an amazing wordsmith and has created an enchanting modern retelling if the classic Ovid myth of Iphis. A seminal feminist book of this century!