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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
“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
“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
“Isn't it natural that I should belittle all the things I can't offer you?”
― The House of Mirth
― The House of Mirth
“With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?
By forgetting. We cannot keep in mind too many things.
There is only the present and nothing to remember.”
― The Passion
By forgetting. We cannot keep in mind too many things.
There is only the present and nothing to remember.”
― The Passion
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