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“No really, I’m curious. What’s your understanding of work?” “Work is combat.”
“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
“And of course when I say that my dear father was a failure I mean it only in the grossest worldly sense. He was an intelligent good man, pure in heart.”
― The Sea, The Sea
― The Sea, The Sea
“She loved him,” Yale said instead of contradicting her, instead of saying it was okay if she hadn’t liked it at all. “Even if she shouldn’t have. I think it was one of those things where you can’t let go of how you first saw the person.”
― The Great Believers
― The Great Believers
“There was no honesty in regretting what had given me my life.”
― Circe
― Circe
“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
JP Higgins’s 2024 Year in Books
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647 books
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