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Sage is Currently Reading

Sage Summers is currently reading

Glass, Irony and God

by Anne Carson

bookshelves: favorites, women-i-love, poetry, currently-reading

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read in February 2020

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Sage Summers said: " Anne Carson makes me absolutely FERAL "

Feb 16, 2020 05:10PM · see review

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Don't Let the Forest In (Don't Let The Forest In, #1)

by C.G. Drews (Goodreads Author)

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The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

bookshelves: favorites, horror, weird-girls, cover-love, cozy-horror, currently-reading

Reading for the 5th time

read in December 2022

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Sage Summers said: " the absolute fucking book of all time

re-read 9.29.23: YEAH IT'S STILL THE BEST FUCKING BOOK OF ALL TIME MY GOD

re-read 11.4.24: I don't even have words for how much I love The Haunting of Hill House and how much Hill House means to me.

re-read 1.10.25: ...more "

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"Tis the season for another re-read" — Dec 20, 2025 04:03PM

Jan 10, 2025 10:13AM · see review

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Sage’s Notes & Highlights

The Once Yellow House by Gemma Amor

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I keep thinking about that, whether all of this is a real experience or whether perhaps I’m simply trapped in my own mind, and then I think about why I stay, and all I can come up with is that love, when all is said and done, is a ...more

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Sage’s Quotes

“All I mean is that I was very young in New York, and that at some point the golden rhythm was broken, and I am not that young any more.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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“Everything that was said to me I seemed to have heard before, and I could no longer listen.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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“Was anyone ever so young? I am here to tell you that someone was.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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“I was not then guilt-ridden about spending afternoons that way, because I still had all the afternoons in the world.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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“I could taste the peach and feel the soft air blowing from a subway grating on my legs and I could smell lilac and garbage and expensive perfume and I knew that it would cost something sooner or later - because I did not belong there, did not come from there - but when you are twenty-two or twenty-three, you figure that later you will have a high emotional balance, and be able to pay whatever it costs.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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