Asnia Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Prynne reminds me of the cleric shouting Friday sermons in the mosque near my childhood memories (Love and its Critics: From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton’s Eden Michael Bryson Arpi Movsesian) https://t.co/3oV5gAFvH4

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Next time someone advises you against adjectives, tell them that adjectives are "the latches of being"! Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red. https://t.co/ZD8lMyUOrT

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To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world. Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children.

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“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” ― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music. — Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor.

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She has red hair and is "roller-skate skinny," a metaphor that, Salinger seems to be saying, is like jazz; you either understand it when you hear it, or you never will. Cliffs Notes. The Catcher in the Rye.

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When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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Why I prefer walking over driving: "I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly. If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! he’d say, that’s grass! A pink blur! That’s a rose garden!" Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

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I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. — Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby

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children left unanchored from love get this: “A soul that is unbound is as mad as one with cemented borders.” ― Gillian Rose, Love's Work.