“I am a cloud, May—a cloud that mingles with objects, but never becomes united with them. I am a cloud, and in the cloud is my solitude, my loneliness, my hunger, and my thirst. But my calamity is that the cloud, which is my reality, longs to hear someone say, "You are not alone in this world but we are two together, and I know who you are.”
― A Self Portrait
― A Self Portrait
“I always think that the quickest way to understand someone is to look at what’s on their bookshelves. Especially if they are honest bookshelves, not the fancy ornamental kind. And there was nothing fancy or ornamental about this place.”
― The Life Impossible
― The Life Impossible
“All reading, in short, is telepathy and all reading is time travel. It connects us to everyone and everywhere and every time and every imagined dream.”
― The Life Impossible
― The Life Impossible
“All her life, she'd loved books. She loved the look of them, the smell of them, the sweet weight of them in her arms. Most of all, she loved the feeling she got every time she picked one up-the feeling of holding an entire world in her hands.”
― Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book
― Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book
“the oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed”
― The Ethics of Ambiguity
― The Ethics of Ambiguity
Oillie’s 2025 Year in Books
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