“If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.”
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“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
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“A daughter grows older and draws nearer to her mother, until she gradually overlaps her like a sewing pattern. But a son becomes some irreparably separate thing.”
― The Mothers
― The Mothers
“He remembered the moment when his thoughts had inverted themselves—that shift from not being able to please everyone to not trying—and the way that change had enabled him to see past the maneuverings and histrionics of the representatives to the deeper structures of the problem; it was the same with the Corazhas.”
― The Goblin Emperor
― The Goblin Emperor
Whitney’s 2025 Year in Books
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