i hope one day my library looks like my late grandmother’s, chock-full of decades of classics, fiction, anthologies of poetry, and volumes on unique travel destinations.
2008: wow I was so stupid last year
2009: wow I was so stupid last year
2010: wow I was so stupid last year
2011: wow I was so stupid last year
2012: wow I was so stupid last year
2013: wow I was so stupid last year
2014: wow I was so stupid last year
2015: wow I was so stupid last year
2016: wow I was so stupid last year
2017: wow I was so stupid last year
2018: wow I was so stupid last year
to be continued
“Language. Words. The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language,”
— John Banville, The Art of Fiction (interview by Belinda McKeon), Paris Review
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“She is not afraid of the darkest dark, in fact she can see in the dark. She is not afraid of offal, refuse, decay, stink, blood, cold bones, dying girls, or murderous hasbands. She can see it, she can take it, she can help.”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, from “Women who Run with the Wolves,” c. 1992
