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"My walk of shame back to the book I thought I disliked beyond finishing" — Nov 21, 2024 11:00AM
"My walk of shame back to the book I thought I disliked beyond finishing" — Nov 21, 2024 11:00AM
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"I got the paper pack and I am reading it from the start, after nearly two years pause. And I still relate, maybe even more. I think in the past two years I’ve become more introspective and self aware that I’m not just reading an entry aged more than 70 years, I’m reading my life through Sylvia’s pen. Entry 36 from the first journal destroyed me, cause what I couldn’t fathom in me had been described in it." — Jul 31, 2025 11:18AM
"I got the paper pack and I am reading it from the start, after nearly two years pause. And I still relate, maybe even more. I think in the past two years I’ve become more introspective and self aware that I’m not just reading an entry aged more than 70 years, I’m reading my life through Sylvia’s pen. Entry 36 from the first journal destroyed me, cause what I couldn’t fathom in me had been described in it." — Jul 31, 2025 11:18AM
“But if the pale blue envelope lying by the biscuit-box had the feelings of a mother, the heart was torn by the little creak, the sudden stir.”
― Jacob's Room
― Jacob's Room
“Something crafted with so much love could never sink”
― The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
― The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
“My grandfather understood the comfort there is in shared silence.”
― The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
― The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
“For never was there a more irrational passion. And Jacob was afraid of her for a moment—so violent, so dangerous is it when young women stand rigid; grasp the barrier; fall in love.”
― Jacob's Room
― Jacob's Room
“He was surprised by his own knowledge of the rules of behaviour; how much more can be said than one thought; how open one can be with a woman; and how little he had known himself before.”
― Jacob's Room
― Jacob's Room
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