Bobby Crane

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Bobby is Currently Reading

Bobby Crane is currently reading

Água Viva

by Clarice Lispector

bookshelves: 2026, i-own-it-need-to-read-it, currently-reading

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Bobby’s Quotes

“Why do we live so painfully in our fictions? Why do we suffer so, from the things we ourselves have invented?”
― Rachel Cusk, Second Place

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“As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

tags: defeated, destroyed, older, spirit, suffer

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“And of those two ways of living - living in the moment and living outside it - which was more real?”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline

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“I’m broken by my need for others. By the erotic dance of memory that pounces when loneliness falls.”
― Sarah Winman, Tin Man

tags: memory

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“Regret is a time machine to the past.
Worry is a time machine to the future.
Gratitude is a time machine to the present.”
― Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

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