I can’t tell if she’s actually real, or if she’s stopped caring if she’s real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real?
“I have never lacked people, usually women, longing to drive me whithersoever I wanted. Why keep bitches and bark yourself?”
― The Sea, The Sea
― The Sea, The Sea
“Her dreams are spare, lack the propulsion of a mission, her ambition is without traction.”
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“winds of history, found himself reciprocating. Writing checks with his mouth that his ass could never hope to cover.”
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“Oh Hartley, Hartley, how timeless, how absolute love is. My love for you is unaware that I am old and you perhaps are dead.”
― The Sea, The Sea
― The Sea, The Sea
“had been old and stern for so long, carved with regrets and years like a monolith. But that was only a shape I had been poured into. I did not have to keep it.”
― Circe
― Circe
JP Higgins’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at JP Higgins’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by JP Higgins
Lists liked by JP Higgins

































