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"Not making it far in this one. I thought it would be nice in the audiobook rotation since I have been reading Fitch Riley’s biography and Beach’s own letters and memoir, but it was the opposite. The tone didn’t hit for me and it’s all just too fanciful and romanticized in a way that felt off. When I looked more into this I found a lot of credible critique of this portrayal of Beach, so I returned it." — Sep 14, 2025 02:00PM
"Not making it far in this one. I thought it would be nice in the audiobook rotation since I have been reading Fitch Riley’s biography and Beach’s own letters and memoir, but it was the opposite. The tone didn’t hit for me and it’s all just too fanciful and romanticized in a way that felt off. When I looked more into this I found a lot of credible critique of this portrayal of Beach, so I returned it." — Sep 14, 2025 02:00PM
their tone of voice, their body language, even subtle things like where they’re standing in the room or how they occupy a chair. Relating is letting all that seep into you and have an effect on how you respond to the other person.
“Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.”
― The Years
― The Years
“No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“As we are a doomed race, chained to a sinking ship, as the whole thing is a bad joke, let us, at any rate, do our part; mitigate the suffering of our fellow-prisoners; decorate the dungeon with flowers and air-cushions; be as decent as we possibly can.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
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