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"Getting through this incredibly slowly on purpose because I would like it to last forever" — Jan 29, 2026 01:18AM
"Getting through this incredibly slowly on purpose because I would like it to last forever" — Jan 29, 2026 01:18AM
“Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone has said this was the price I would have agreed to pay it. That surprises me; that with the hurt and the mess comes a shift of recognition. It was worth it. Love is worth it.”
― Written on the Body
― Written on the Body
“She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on her lips. She hardly knew what she had been seeking, or why the failure to find it had so blotted the light from her sky: she was only aware of a vague sense of failure, of an inner isolation deeper than the loneliness about her.”
― The House of Mirth
― The House of Mirth
“What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest.”
― The House of Mirth
― The House of Mirth
“She made no answer, and he went on: “What’s the use? You gave me my first glimpse of a real life, and at the same moment you asked me to go on with a sham one. It’s beyond human enduring—that’s all.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“Explore me,' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you and I cannot find the way out. Sometimes I think I’m free, coughed up like Jonah from the whale, but then I turn a corner and recognise myself again. Myself in your skin, myself lodged in your bones, myself floating in the cavities that decorate every surgeon’s wall. That is how I know you. You are what I know.”
― Written on the Body
― Written on the Body
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