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"I am reading this at the same time as Ian McEwan's newest, What We Can Know, and they both start with dinner parties, roughly around the same time (late 90s-early '00s) at which 3 or 4 entirely unlikeable, upper-middle-class British couples are gathered. It's very confusing!" — Nov 15, 2025 07:00AM
"I am reading this at the same time as Ian McEwan's newest, What We Can Know, and they both start with dinner parties, roughly around the same time (late 90s-early '00s) at which 3 or 4 entirely unlikeable, upper-middle-class British couples are gathered. It's very confusing!" — Nov 15, 2025 07:00AM
“He said to me once: it is the mind that made the bombs that is killing the world. For that purpose the bombs are not needed.”
― Oh Pure And Radiant Heart
― Oh Pure And Radiant Heart
“There was something out of kilter with his mother's happiness, as though a light had been switched on by a passing stranger, and left to illuminate an empty room.”
― The Green Road
― The Green Road
“The famed MRS degree, because in practice, a female brain is worth nothing. Four lobes of the cerebrum, and I have sometimes imagined one of mine labeled RAGE.”
― Joan Is Okay
― Joan Is Okay
“...that was the only function of music, to convey either nostalgia or longing, the same emotion in different tenses.”
― Oh Pure And Radiant Heart
― Oh Pure And Radiant Heart
“The heart of the difference between grief as we imagine it and grief as it is: the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless succession of moments during which we will confront the experience of meaninglessness itself.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
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