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"Reread because i love this book dearly and to hype myself up for new ben lerner next week" — Mar 27, 2026 03:16PM
"Reread because i love this book dearly and to hype myself up for new ben lerner next week" — Mar 27, 2026 03:16PM
“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
“Beneath his feet the snail kept on, feeling its way forward, dragging the house of its shell, fitting its body to the sand, to the private unlit horizons that whorled all around it.”
― The Shell Collector
― The Shell Collector
“He was numb forever. What clockless hours passed, what weeks and months? He didn't know.”
― The Shell Collector
― The Shell Collector
“You kneel beside her, breathing the familiar smell of Sasha’s sleep, whispering into her ear some mix of I’m sorry and I believe in you and I’ll always be near you, protecting you, and I will never leave you, I’ll be curled around your heart for the rest of your life, until the water pressing my shoulders and chest crushes me awake and I hear Sasha screaming into my face: Fight! Fight! Fight!”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“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
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