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“We had moved from our fixed position and there was now no possibility of getting back to the way things were before she died. I could not tell whether the heavy feeling in my chest had to do with what might happen or with what had already happened and was irremediable.”
― So Long, See You Tomorrow
― So Long, See You Tomorrow
“He had tried so hard, had done his very best; why wouldn't she allow him to forget? He squeezed her limp hand almost with violence, as though he would force her to come back from this dream of ignoble pleasures, from these base and hateful memories--back into the present, back into reality: the appalling present, the awful reality--but sublime, but significant, but desperately important precisely because of the imminence of that which made them so fearful.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“I feel,' he said, after a silence, 'as though I were just beginning to have something to write about. As though I were beginning to be able to use that power I feel I've got inside me--that extra, latent power.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“Now was the moment to forget about that door I tud walked through without thinking, and about the void that could sometimes be bridged in dreams, and about the way things used to be when my mother was alive. Instead, I dung to them more tightly than ever, even as I was being drawn willy-nilly into my father's new life.”
― So Long, See You Tomorrow
― So Long, See You Tomorrow
“After I couldn't remember any more except in a general way what she looked like, I could still remember the sound of her voice, and I clung to that.
I also clung to the idea that if things remained exactly the way they were, if we were careful not to take a step in any direction from the place where we were now, we would somehow get back to the way it was before she died. I knew that this was not a rational belief, but the alternative - that when people die they are really gone and I would never see her again - was more than I could manage then or for a long time afterward.”
― So Long, See You Tomorrow
I also clung to the idea that if things remained exactly the way they were, if we were careful not to take a step in any direction from the place where we were now, we would somehow get back to the way it was before she died. I knew that this was not a rational belief, but the alternative - that when people die they are really gone and I would never see her again - was more than I could manage then or for a long time afterward.”
― So Long, See You Tomorrow
Ben’s 2025 Year in Books
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