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“There’s nothing more tedious than a grown man blaming his parents, birth or otherwise, for all the things that have gone wrong in his life.”
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
“life had manifested the heart’s invisible furies on his face.”
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
“But maybe in those seven minutes they'd first been apart, they'd each lived a lifetime, setting out their separate paths. Each discovering who she might be.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“A line came into my mind, something that Hannah Arendt once said about the poet Auden: that life had manifested the heart's invisible furies on his face.”
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
― The Heart's Invisible Furies
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For all those planning to read Infinite Jest this summer starting June 21. Support, encouragement and gentle pushes welcome.
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An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more
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