“All people at root are time optimists. We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“Short Perfect Novels Too Loud a Solitude, by Bohumil Hrabal Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson Sula, by Toni Morrison The Shadow-Line, by Joseph Conrad The All of It, by Jeannette Haien Winter in the Blood, by James Welch Swimmer in the Secret Sea, by William Kotzwinkle The Blue Flower, by Penelope Fitzgerald”
― The Sentence: A Novel
― The Sentence: A Novel
“Stephen Spender’s poem “The Truly Great.”
― Jackie: Public, Private, Secret
― Jackie: Public, Private, Secret
“Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John Kennedy”
― Jackie: Public, Private, Secret
― Jackie: Public, Private, Secret
“mastering the art of contentment.”
― Jackie: Public, Private, Secret
― Jackie: Public, Private, Secret
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