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“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.”
― Prometheus Bound
― Prometheus Bound
“My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.”
― Agamemnon
― Agamemnon
“I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete — that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theatre Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
Reading for Fun: English Major Edition
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This is a group started by English Majors, for English majors! We will read one book monthly and will likely meet (via Zoom) to discuss. This is also ...more
Carissa’s 2025 Year in Books
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