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“Watch your fucking mouth,” I snapped, pointing at his nose. “Only warning I’ll give you. You do not talk about her like that.”
“I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!”
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“A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“The world was hers for the reading.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
Betsy’s 2025 Year in Books
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