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“I was going through a second upbringing: learning a new set of assumptions, and feigning a greater level of understanding than I really possessed.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Things and people moved around me, taking positions in obscure hierarchies, participating in systems I didn't know about and never would. A complex network of objects and concepts. You live through certain things before you understand them. You can't always take the analytical position.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“I wasn’t used to being attacked like this and it was frightening. I thought of myself as an independent person, so independent that the opinions of others were irrelevant to me. Now I was afraid that Nick was right. I isolated myself from criticism so I could behave badly without losing my sense of righteousness.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“I’m sorry, he said. I’m just finding you kind of hostile. You’re interpreting your failure to hurt me as hostility on my part, I said. That’s interesting.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“I didn’t feel with her, like I did with many other people, that while I was talking she was just preparing the next thing she wanted to say.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
Holidazed Book Club
— 42 members
— last activity Apr 02, 2025 04:12AM
Welcome! Our book club offers a curated collection of atypical holiday reading to ward off seasonal attacks of materialism and existential angst. Est. ...more
Spooky And Cozy Book Club
— 42 members
— last activity Apr 08, 2026 06:25PM
A place to cozy up and read spooky and thriller books all year long! I have been a fan of spooky and thrillers all my life, so I wanted to start a gro ...more
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