“I’m creatively drained but I’ll turn it around in early 2025” Early 2025:

Paperback books are like velveteen rabbits — there to be loved and squeezed and read and stuffed into shoulder bags and left in the sun and read again until there's nothing left but the best kind of memories

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If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life