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Drude Rasmussen
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“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
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“She loved the guy. She did it for him. She would’ve done anything for him. Some people are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out—your friends, everyone you used to know. And it’s still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it’s going to take you down with it. I’ve seen that happen to a lot of people here. I think that’s why I’m sick of love.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
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Drude’s 2025 Year in Books
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