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"i need to finish this tomorrow for book club and i do not see john caldigate’s situationship issues resolving any time soon" — Aug 31, 2025 03:55PM
"i need to finish this tomorrow for book club and i do not see john caldigate’s situationship issues resolving any time soon" — Aug 31, 2025 03:55PM
“Sure, she said, as Pablo once remarked, when you make a thing, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly, but those that do it after you they don't have to worry about making it and they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when the others make it.”
― The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas: Gertrude Stein Collection
― The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas: Gertrude Stein Collection
“In August she went to the river to watch her husband cast flies with a client, the loops lifting from his rod like a spell cast over the water.”
― The Hunter's Wife
― The Hunter's Wife
“His voice bore an astonishing faith, in the slow and beautiful way it trilled sentences, in the way it braided each syllable.”
― The Shell Collector
― The Shell Collector
“What," he asked into the silence, "is her name?”
― The Shell Collector
― The Shell Collector
“Now it was dark. The airplane descended over Chicago, its galaxy of electric lights, the vast neighborhoods coming clearer as the plane glided toward the airport--streetlights, headlights, stacks of buildings, ice rinks, a truck turning at a stoplight, scraps of snow atop a warehouse and winking antennae on faraway hills, finally the long converging parallels of blue runway lights, and they were down.”
― The Hunter's Wife
― The Hunter's Wife
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