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The Idiot
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"re-reading because i loved either/or so much i've convinced myself i just didn't get it the first time round" Mar 23, 2026 03:13AM

 
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Elif Batuman
“Was that what was so painful: that nobody had ever come so close to me- nobody had ever seen me, and come right up to me, and kept going, and looked into my eyes so seriously, with so little fear?”
Elif Batuman, Either/Or

Octavia E. Butler
“Moral: The weak can overcome the strong if the weak persist. Persisting isn’t always safe, but it’s often necessary.”
Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

Daphne du Maurier
“I wanted to go on sitting there, not talking, not listening to the others, keeping the moment precious for all time, because we were peaceful all of us, we were content and drowsy even as the bee who droned above our heads. In a little while it would be different, there would come tomorrow, and the next day and another year. And we would be changed perhaps, never sitting quite like this again. Some of us would go away, or suffer, or die, the future stretched away in front of us, unknown, unseen, not perhaps what we wanted, not what we planned. This moment was safe though, this could not be touched. Here we sat together, Maxim and I, hand-in-hand, and the past and the future mattered not at all. This was secure, this funny little fragment of time he would never remember, never think about again…For them it was just after lunch, quarter-past-three on a haphazard afternoon, like any hour, like any day. They did not want to hold it close, imprisoned and secure, as I did. They were not afraid.”
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
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Zora Neale Hurston
“It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.”
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

Alice Walker
“He love looking at Shug. I love looking at Shug. But Shug don’t love looking at but one of us. Him. But that the way it spose to be. I know that. But if that so, why my heart hurt me so?”
Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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