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“Just as soon as you get over your fixation with being on an equal financial footing as I am, maybe we can start looking?”
“Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.”
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“For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracting superlatives, figuring the square root of an absolute and then multiplying by maybe.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“Maybes never are.”
― Dragonsong
― Dragonsong
“She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
Josie’s 2024 Year in Books
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