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If she were a bit less in love she might do less crappy physics, but we wouldn’t want that, would we?”
“Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.”
― Bird Box
― Bird Box
“Everything he has learned tells him to leave; Everything he has wished for tells him to stay.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“a kind of emptiness existed in the center of my bagel; really
it was just the hole that's in the middle
of all bagels; 'i need to go read my blog
to find out what my politics are”
― Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
it was just the hole that's in the middle
of all bagels; 'i need to go read my blog
to find out what my politics are”
― Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Women and Men
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Women and Men began as a reading group for Joseph McElroy's masterpiece. It has developed into All Things McElroy. We have chapter threads for discuss ...more
The Virginia Woolf Reading Group
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This group is for anyone who knows (or wants to know) about Virginia Woolf. If you have read all her works or none, loved her books or hated them, t ...more
East of Eden Readalong
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— last activity Jul 04, 2018 08:03AM
"The Salinas Valley is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the Salinas River winds and twists up th ...more
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