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Like Life

by Lorrie Moore

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elle said: " the way i love lorrie moore "

Jun 09, 2025 07:42AM · see review

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Good Behaviour

by Molly Keane

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elle said: " opening paragraph alone convinced me to pick this up: "Rose smelt the air, considering what she smelt; a miasma of unspoken criticism and disparagement fogged the distance between us. I knew she ached to censure my cooking, but through the years I ...more "

Jun 04, 2025 09:34PM · see review

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Vineland

by Thomas Pynchon

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elle said: " can't believe i'm reading a pynchon again after swearing him off post gravity's rainbow.

reading with griffin who (unfortunately) loves pynchon. ...more "

Apr 25, 2025 07:36PM · see review

elle’s Quotes

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: romantic

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“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude

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“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.”
― Anne Carson (Translator), Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

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