Between The Purple Passages


by Ashley Zimunya


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  • Why I’m a Christian

    November 2025  “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God to salvation to anyone who believes, first to the Jew, and to the Greek.” Romans 1:16, CSB translation Sally Rooney’s Normal People begins with an epigraph. It is a quote from Daniel Deronda… Continue reading

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About

If your hobbies also include reading, thinking excessively about everything you read, and learning other people’s thoughts on the things they’ve read recently or a long time ago, you’re very welcome here!

This is where you can find my observations on various texts (a text here being anything that can be ‘read’ and thus including film, theatre, or Taylor Swift lyrics, for example) and what I think can be found between their “purple passages”.

Recent Posts

  • Why I’m a Christian
  • Hamnet (Chloé Zhao, 2026): A Meditation on Love, Grief, and Art*
  • The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Drama
  • My 2025 in Books*
  • The Texts from my Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Non-Fiction

Recent Posts

  • Why I’m a Christian
  • Hamnet (Chloé Zhao, 2026): A Meditation on Love, Grief, and Art*
  • The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Drama

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