“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that is wants to live humbly for one.”
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“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.”
― Stranger than Fiction
― Stranger than Fiction
Beth’s 2025 Year in Books
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