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Lily M ❀
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Lily M ❀ said:
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I wanted to like this book, but it just didn't work for me. The pacing and flow was off, and I didn't enjoy the lack of subtlety.
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It is so difficult—at least, I find it difficult—to understand people who speak the truth.”
“Question: If an Egyptian cannot speak English, who is telling his story?”
― If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
― If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
“I’m caught between my desire to understand and my desire to appear as though I already understand.”
― If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
― If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
“he gathered antigonê close in his arms again. choking, his blood bright red on her white cheek. and now he lies dead with the dead, and she is his at last, his bride in the houses of the dead.”
― The Oedipus Cycle
― The Oedipus Cycle
“But it is a pleasure, isn't it, on a crisp September night in Dublin to walk with long free strides along a quiet street. In the prime of his life. Incumbent on him now to enjoy such fleeting pleasures. Next minute might die. Happens every day to someone.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“The only reason anything matters is because it ends,' he says. 'I wouldn't hold you so tightly now if I thought we could be here forever.”
― A Study in Drowning
― A Study in Drowning
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