#books2016

Books i read in 2017: milk and honey by Rupi Kaur 

‘Your demons are always with you. Don’t you understand that by now? Always with you, impossible to escape. But you never can guess how they might manifest themselves’.

I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope

"put on your pretty clothes and wait for the next kiss, the next kind word. wait for the stag. wait for the collar. wait to be made a murderer and a slave"[x]

Need a stellar book to kick off the new year? Here are some favorite books from 2016. Get them before they are gone!!! #books2016 #bestof2016 #arlingtonma #teenbooks (at Robbins Library)

Oscar Wilde, only dull people are brilliant at breakfast

“It was Mina this whole time, wasn’t it?" I give him the only thing I can: the cold, hard truth. The one that’ll rewrite every memory he has - of him and me, her and me, the two of them, all three of us: "It’ll always be Mina.”

My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-La. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of miles away, because I wanted to see the ocean and my father said that it was about time the four of us made that journey. I remember asking, 'What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?' and my father said, 'Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand,' and that was the last thing he ever said.