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I think I need to stop reading other people’s reviews of books on here. I also think this book was grossly misinterpreted to be very privileged & a happy go lucky account of a year in a small cottage during the pandemic—but below the surface… there i
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"you’d better bet i’m going to finish this this year— month by month" — Jan 03, 2026 08:46PM
"you’d better bet i’m going to finish this this year— month by month" — Jan 03, 2026 08:46PM
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
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“If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.”
― Eating Animals
― Eating Animals
“So It Goes”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“I learned to find equal meaning in the repeated rituals of domestic life. Setting the table. Lighting the candles. Building the fire. Cooking. All those soufflés, all that crème caramel, all those daubes and albóndigas and gumbos. Clean sheets, stacks of clean towels, hurricane lamps for storms, enough water and food to see us through whatever geological event came our way. These fragments I have shored against my ruins, were the words that came to mind then. These fragments mattered to me. I believed in them. That I could find meaning in the intensely personal nature of life as a wife and mother did not seem inconsistent with finding meaning in the vast indifference of geology and the test shots.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
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