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I accept that I’m undesirable.” This struck me as a fundamental difference between us and why I’d kept my friendship with Kit at arm’s length over the years, because his self-acceptance rattled me. Kit would not allow himself to butch it up
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“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
― This Side of Paradise
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
― This Side of Paradise
“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.”
― A Christmas Carol
― A Christmas Carol
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
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Isabella’s 2025 Year in Books
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