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"Last night, I asked my husband to look through my Kobo reader and pick the next title for me to read. When I saw his pick I was like "wtf do you know how long this is" and he apparently had no idea. Well. Gotta start somewhere. So my adventure begins." — 10 hours, 38 min ago
"Last night, I asked my husband to look through my Kobo reader and pick the next title for me to read. When I saw his pick I was like "wtf do you know how long this is" and he apparently had no idea. Well. Gotta start somewhere. So my adventure begins." — 10 hours, 38 min ago
“Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.”
― At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
― At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“For minutes on end he could not tell whether he was really hearing howls of pain, or whether it was simply that his years of long, exhausting work had rendered him incapable of distinguishing between the general noise and ancient prehistoric screams that were somehow preserved in time ('the evidence of suffering does not disappear without a trace,' he hopefully remarked) and now were being raised by the rain, like dust.”
― Satantango
― Satantango
“I try to breathe from what I am inside, to keep the sorrow away, or in any case keep it under control so the fear doesn't take over, so the terrors don't overwhelm me, and I know that this sudden sorrow, these sudden terrors that have welled up inside me will get smaller and I will get bigger
- Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II”
― Septology
- Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II”
― Septology
“I don’t want to go running down some career path—supposedly such a grand enterprise. What’s so grand about it: people acquiring crooked backs at an early age from stooping at undersized desks, wrinkled hands, pale faces, mutilated workday trousers, trembling legs, fat bellies, sour stomachs, bald spots upon their skulls, bitter, snappish, leathery, faded, insipid eyes, ravaged brows and the consciousness of having been conscientious fools. No thank you!”
― The Tanners
― The Tanners
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