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"Oh my god, I’ve got to the “inciting incident” and I’ve had to stop before I faint" — Jul 17, 2026 02:07AM
"Oh my god, I’ve got to the “inciting incident” and I’ve had to stop before I faint" — Jul 17, 2026 02:07AM
Short, fat, and of a quiet disposition, he appeared to spend a lot of money on really bad clothes, which hung about his squat frame like skin on a shrunken toad.
“By staying married, we give something to ourselves and to others: hope. Hope that in steadfastly loving someone, we ourselves, for all our faults, will be loved; that the broken world will be made whole. To hitch your rickety wagon to the flickering star of another fallible human being -- what an insane thing to do. What a burden, and what a gift.”
― Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
― Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
“Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us — by taking everything.”
― Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
― Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
“Ever since I was left somewhat alone, without gods, I have been a ferocious believer in the power of small coincidences.”
― Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
― Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
“Numbers and maps tell horror stories, but the stories of deepest horror are perhaps those for which there are no numbers, no maps, no possible accountability, no words ever written or spoken.”
― Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
― Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
“And then I think I don't need to write anything down ever again. Nothing's gone, not really. Everything that's ever happened has left its little wound.”
― Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
― Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
The Last Thursday Society
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Book Club in Peterborough, UK. Books that make you think, people that make you feel.
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