Kalie Ching

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The Summer Day

Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

—Mary Oliver

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The black and teal cover of The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, showing her family in a thought bubble. Oct. book club

The Complete Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi

“I realized then that I didn’t understand anything. I read all the books I could. I’d never read as much as I did during that period.”
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Hugh Jackman stands on stage with his arms outstretched and a cane raised, facing a packed theater beneath a bright spotlight, in The Prestige.

The Prestige

2006
David and Lucy sit together on the moon, looking at Earth, in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

Nausicaä smiles with Teto on her shoulder beneath a blue sky.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Louise raises her hand to the glass opposite a heptapod in Arrival.

Arrival

2016
The cream and red cover of Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom.

Tuesdays with Morrie

Mitch Albom

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
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Birthdays

Then there was that year you fell in love. The one where there weren’t any candles—just you walking late at night through the city streets with your heart in pieces, wanting to give yourself to the first stranger who called you beautiful.

Since then it’s been the same every year. As soon as the first match is struck, the smell of burning takes you backwards through your memory. It stops you right at that moment on that warm, September night, as you watched the first trickle of melting wax hit the icing, and you couldn’t think of a single damn thing you wanted—because he was standing there, in the flickering light, asking you to make a wish.

—Lang Leav

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