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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
“Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.”
― Bluets
― Bluets
“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
“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
“Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“Eventually I confess to a friend some details about my weeping—its intensity, its frequency. She says (kindly) that she thinks we sometimes weep in front of a mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair. (Can a reflection be a witness? Can one pass oneself the sponge wet with vinegar from a reed?)”
― Bluets
― Bluets
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