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Mel Mader
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“At the happy ending of the Tempest, Prospero brings the kind back togeter with his son, and finds Miranda's true love and punishes the bad duke and frees Ariel and becomes a duke himself again. Everyone - except Caliban - is happy, and everyone is forgiven, and everyone is fine, and they all sail away on calm seas. Happy endings.
That's how it is in Shakespeare.
But Shakespeare was wrong.
Sometimes there isn't a Prospero to make everything fine again.
And sometimes the quality of mercy is strained.”
― Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
That's how it is in Shakespeare.
But Shakespeare was wrong.
Sometimes there isn't a Prospero to make everything fine again.
And sometimes the quality of mercy is strained.”
― Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
“...and she ran out of the diesel combustion and right to me and we held each other and we were not empty at all.
"Holling," she said. "I was so afraid I wouldn't find you."
"I was standing right here, Heather." I said. "I'll always be standing right here.”
― The Wednesday Wars
"Holling," she said. "I was so afraid I wouldn't find you."
"I was standing right here, Heather." I said. "I'll always be standing right here.”
― The Wednesday Wars
“Did you find yourself?"
"What?" said my sister.
"Did you find yourself?"
"She found me," I said.”
― The Wednesday Wars
"What?" said my sister.
"Did you find yourself?"
"She found me," I said.”
― The Wednesday Wars
“You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? So what? Who cares if it made all that big a difference? What difference? And why should I have to guess what the difference is? Isn't that what he's supposed to say?
Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?”
― Okay for Now
Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?”
― Okay for Now
“Think of the sound you make when you let go after holding your breath for a very, very long time. Think of the gladdest sound you know: the sound of dawn on the first day of spring break, the sound of a bottle of Coke opening, the sound of a crowd cheering in your ears because you're coming down to the last part of a race--and you're ahead. Think of the sound of water over stones in a cold stream, and the sound of wind through green trees on a late May afternoon in Central Park. Think of the sound of a bus coming into the station carrying someone you love.
Then put all those together.”
― The Wednesday Wars
Then put all those together.”
― The Wednesday Wars
Mel’s 2025 Year in Books
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