postcards by elle

books with beautiful prose, part 2

While I don’t usually gravitate towards poetry, I love poetic and beautiful prose. Here are some books I love with my favorite quotes from them. I linked reviews in the title of the book (for the ones that have them)! I still have about 30 books left in my list, so I’ll be posting part 3 sometime later this week.

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books with beautiful prose, part 1

While I don’t usually gravitate towards poetry, I love poetic and beautiful prose. Here are some books I love with my favorite quotes from them. I linked reviews in the title of the book (for the ones that have them)! I have about 60 books in my list right now, so I’ll be making a part 2 soon.

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postcard 12: getting older, nothing new

“I act and react, and suddenly I wonder, ‘Where is the girl that I was last year? Two years ago? What would she think of me now?”

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media collection: on growing up

I have this folder in my notes app called “hyperspecific media collections”, where I find a specific mood or topic I love and compile a media collection. They consist of book quotes, song lyrics, paintings, and scenes from movies or television shows. I love the idea that all forms of art and creativity are intricately connected, and seeing these parallels and similarities allows me to truly appreciate art.

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postcard 11: every book i've given five stars

It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it off you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is …

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aftersun

SOPHIE: I think it's nice that we share the same sky. CALUM: What do you mean? SOPHIE: Well, like... Sometimes at playtime, I look up at the sky, and if I can see the Sun then... I think that the fact that we can both see the Sun, so even though we're not actually in the same place and we're not actually together... we kind of are in a way, you know? Like we're both underneath the same sky, so... kind of together.

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normal people

Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head. “I’m not a religious person, but I do sometimes think that God made you for me.” This quote, spoken by Connell, has become one of the most well-known quotes in contemporary literature. Normal People is centered around Marianne and Connell as they navigate their lives from adolescence to adulthood. Their relationship, which is a large part of their young adult lives, is wrought with misunderstanding after misunderstanding. They struggle together, they struggle apart. They yearn together, for each other, for a better life, for a

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every movie scene that made me cry

I’m a twice-a-year crier, but these are some movie scenes that made me cry so much that I almost puked. I keep a list in my notes app of this, so I thought I’d share for anyone who wants a good cry (or five).

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postcard 10: eldest daughter syndrome

This, I think again, is what it is to dream.

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postcard 9: on the shelf, episode three

She could remember it all but none of it seemed to come to anything. She had a sense the dream had ended and she had slept on.

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