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“am discovering her pretenses. She is always smiling, gay, but underneath she feels unreal, remote, detached from experience. She acts as if she were asleep. She is trying to awaken by falling into bed with anyone who invites her.”
― Little Birds
― Little Birds
“n’aimait la mer qu’à cause de ses tempêtes, et la verdure seulement lorsqu’elle était clairsemée parmi les ruines. Il fallait qu’elle pût retirer des choses une sorte de profit personnel ; et elle rejetait comme inutile tout ce qui ne contribuait pas à la consommation immédiate de son cœur, – étant de tempérament plus sentimentale qu’artiste, cherchant des émotions et non des paysages.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
“He was whispering over and over again the same phrase, “You have the body of an angel. It is impossible that such a body should have a sex. You have the body of an angel.” The anger swept over Fay like a fever, an anger at his moving his penis away from her hand. She sat up, her hair wild about her shoulders, and said, “I am not an angel, Albert. I am a woman. I want you to love me as a woman.”
― Little Birds
― Little Birds
Zeidy’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Zeidy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,850 books
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84 friends
135 books
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128 friends
1,009 books
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46 friends
317 books
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14 friends
425 books
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114 friends
333 books
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90 friends
1 book
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21 friends
198 books
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93 friends
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