“I had no big plan to become a curator, no great scheme to work my way up a ladder. I was just trying to pass the time. I thought if I did normal things - held down a job, for example - I could starve off the part of me that hated everything.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“Oh, sleep. Nothing else could ever bring me such pleasure, such freedom, the power to feel and move and think and imagine, safe from the miseries of my waking consciousness.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“I feel an unhappiness which almost dismembers me, and at the same time am convinced of its necessity”
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
SkyRis’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at SkyRis’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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