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“When someone says a song or a book or a poem saved their life, this is what they mean: • it took me out of my brain for the one second needed to get back onto the planet • it shot out a spark into the distance that I could then build a path toward • it opened something up in my imagination Because suicide is the result of the death of the imagination. You forget how to dream up other possible futures. You can’t picture new maneuvers, new ways around. Everything is just the catastrophic present and there will never be a time this is not so. That is what kills you. What saves you is a new story to tell yourself about how things could be.”
― The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, & Ex-Countries
― The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, & Ex-Countries

“I am running and singing and when it’s raining I’m the only one left on the open street, smiling with my eyes fixed on the sky because it’s cleaning me. I’m the one on the other side of the party, hearing laughter and the emptying of bottles while I peacefully make my way to the river, a lonely road, following the smell of the ocean. I’m the one waking up at 4am to witness the sunrise, where the sky touches the sea, and I hold my elbows, grasping tight to whatever I’ve made of myself.”
― Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
― Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
“In the gloom and solitude of the forest, “where the bitter wormwood stood pale grey” and where “the hoar stones lay thick,” the black, giant elves had their dwelling.”
― The Old English Herbals
― The Old English Herbals

“Reality is the perfect enemy: it always fights back, it can never be defeated, and infinite energy can be expended in unsuccessfully resisting it.”
― An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives
― An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives

“Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life.”
― Faith in a Hard Ground: Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Ethics
― Faith in a Hard Ground: Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Ethics
Minamanjari’s 2024 Year in Books
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Chick-lit, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Fantasy, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, Travel, ancient, archeology, astrology, cozy-mystery, classical-studies, buddhism, divination, esoterica, fairy-tales, fairy-tale-retellings, gnosticism, fractured-fairy-tales, goddess, herbs, metaphysics, occult, planetary-romance, paganism, prehistory, prehistoric, magical-realism, speculative-fiction, slice-of-life, retellings, research, witchcraft, wilderness, wicca, utopia, taoism, tarot, theosophy, european-literature, folk-tales, inspirational, dark-fantasy, psychological-thriller, and nutrition
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