"But then she wakes, and sees the pink and orange dawn against the clouds, or hears the lament of a lone fiddle, the music and the melody, and remembers there is such beauty in the world."
I think I feel the same, but I’m not so old and tired yet.
"But then she wakes, and sees the pink and orange dawn against the clouds, or hears the lament of a lone fiddle, the music and the melody, and remembers there is such beauty in the world."
I think I feel the same, but I’m not so old and tired yet.
"Heat hangs like a low roof over Paris."
I just liked this as an opening paragraph to one of the chapters.
"March is such a fickle month. It is the seam between winter and spring - though seam suggests an even hem, and March is more like a rough line of stitches sewn by an unsteady hand, swinging wildly between January gusts and June greens."
I loved this book. I didn’t actually realise it counts as Young Adult which probably explains the short chapters and easy to read prose, but none of that detracts from an absolutely cracking storyline.
"If brains are houses with many rooms then I live in the basement."
Last one from this book. Have started the next one already.
"If there could be only one of us it would be you."
Both haunting and loving.
"She has always known that houses are bodies and that her body is a house in more ways than most."
This was incredible. It has quite poetic prose. Definitely one of those books that stays with you.
Well, the first quarter of the year anyway. Sooooo much music, my music picks of 2025 playlist is already over two hours long.
January seemed to be country and girly pop inspired, interestingly.
Notable mentions (there is actually more than this!), mostly albums:
And then there is stuff I’ve not got to around yet and will have to roll over into April:
Probably said superb too much. Oh well.
"He dropped his arm over my shoulder and the fear slithered off me and dropped behind like a discarded skin."
From a prose point of view I wish that was the ending. Although Nora is probably lucky it wasn’t even if she didn’t think it at the time.
"My heart spread out and escaped from its hard embattlements."
"I fell in love with his long legs, saw him getting smaller in the distance, felt him pulling one of those long strings out of my heart."
Loved it. Has been on my list for some time. I didn’t know anything about it, but didn’t realise it’s a cross between Trainspotting and Normal People, but set in Australia (I’m sure people would hate me for saying that). And of course pre-dating either of those by years. I find anything “relationshipy” incredibly stressful and this stressed me to the max (but I still thought it was great).
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