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Julia Hurley
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“Sometimes as I am falling asleep in a dark, quiet room I have for a moment a great and treasurable illusion of the past.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“He read it for the same reason that an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.”
― Miss Lonelyhearts
― Miss Lonelyhearts
“Ever since we touched each other's bodies, we'd stopped avoiding each other's eyes--not because we'd gained an understanding of each other, but because we had less of that inexplicable fear between people.”
― Mending Bodies
― Mending Bodies
“Man has a tropism for order. Keys in one pocket, change in another. Mandolins are tuned G D A E. The physical world has a tropism for disorder, entropy. Man against Nature...the battle of the centuries. Keys yearn to mix with change. Mandolins strive to get out of tune. Every order has within it the germ of destruction. All order is doomed, yet the battle is worthwhile.”
― Miss Lonelyhearts
― Miss Lonelyhearts
“I've always done just what I wanted.'
'I know.'
'I do feel such a bitch.'
'Well,' I said.
'My God!' said Brett, 'the things a woman goes through.'
'Yes?'
'Oh, I do feel such a bitch.”
― The Sun Also Rises
'I know.'
'I do feel such a bitch.'
'Well,' I said.
'My God!' said Brett, 'the things a woman goes through.'
'Yes?'
'Oh, I do feel such a bitch.”
― The Sun Also Rises
Julia’s 2025 Year in Books
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385 books
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