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Jillian
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“Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting.”
― The Interestings
― The Interestings
“Weeping is terrible for the complexion,' said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, 'but it is very good for the heart.”
― Day After Night
― Day After Night
“Sometimes luck was just another word for creation, which was as relentless as destruction.”
― Day After Night
― Day After Night
“But, she knew, you didn’t have to marry your soulmate, and you didn’t even have to marry an Interesting. You didn’t always need to be the dazzler, the firecracker, the one who cracked everyone up, or made everyone want to sleep with you, or be the one who wrote and starred in the play that got the standing ovation. You could cease to be obsessed with the idea of being interesting.”
― The Interestings
― The Interestings
Jillian’s 2025 Year in Books
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