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"Been slowly reading this one on my phone. Hoping that updating my progress here would motivate me to keep going 🤞" — May 07, 2026 05:18AM
"Been slowly reading this one on my phone. Hoping that updating my progress here would motivate me to keep going 🤞" — May 07, 2026 05:18AM
“Finally, in a low whisper, he said, ‘I think I might be a terrible person.’ For a split second I believed him - I thought he was about to confess a crime, maybe a murder. Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before asking someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.”
― The First Bad Man
― The First Bad Man
“Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground are gone, inundated and carried away by that rush of water. And still the rain beats down on the surface of the river. Every time you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That’s it. That’s my heart.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one.
The pain is an anchor, mooring me here.”
― Kafka on the Shore
The pain is an anchor, mooring me here.”
― Kafka on the Shore
“What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
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