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I’m currently reading La Vie Parisienne by Janelle McCulloch, a book about the search for love and lingerie, as well as a whole lot more like culture, food and a perfect life in Paris. Janelle, born and raised in Castlemaine in Western Victoria, has fast become another writer to add to the list of those that I adore and admire.

Sometimes, when reading, you come across a paragraph so powerful that it actually has the ability to hold you in that moment. It makes you read the paragraph over and over again, almost as if you want it to be a wish that is granted. It doesn’t happen with every book, and it doesn’t mean the same thing to every person. But, every now and again, you read something that not only connects with the very core of you, but also, in some small way, actually alters the way you think and feel. Emily Dickinson once said “I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes, I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine”. Sometimes reading can make you feel that way too. Here’s a paragraph from La Vie Parisienne, a paragraph that made me shine:

“We live for certain moments in life. They’re usually the moments when happiness falls unexpectedly around us and we realise that, for that brief second in time, we are extraordinarily content. These moments can be potent. They can make us believe that all moments can be like this, even though the reality is that they are as rare as that other ideal: The Perfect Life. They are so potent we will do anything to prolong them, hoping against all hope that they will lead us into a kind of permanent beatitude”.