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"this book is funny to me, he’s mentioned how young the protag’s wife is pretty much every other page and ppl use each others names in conversation to such an unnatural degree" — Jan 23, 2026 11:24AM
"this book is funny to me, he’s mentioned how young the protag’s wife is pretty much every other page and ppl use each others names in conversation to such an unnatural degree" — Jan 23, 2026 11:24AM
“53. 'We mainly suppose the experiential quality to be an intrinsic quality of the physical object'-this is the so-called systematic illusion of color. Perhaps it is also that of love. But I am not willing to go there-not just yet. I believed in you.”
― Bluets
― Bluets
“I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
“Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
“I have heard that this pain can be converted, as it were, by accepting “the fundamental impermanence of all things.” This acceptance bewilders me: sometimes it seems an act of will; at others, of surrender.”
― Bluets
― Bluets
“Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
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