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“Even in their brief time together, Nora had come to understand the difference between infatuation and love. Infatuation was weather. Love was climate.”
― Time After Time
― Time After Time
“but I have come to see that when two people work closely together on a joint project—two intelligent people, I mean to say—a bond of communication develops between them that can enhance their work. All the while they are jointly engaged on a task, they are aware of, acutely sensitive to, each other’s tiniest movements, and can interpret them accordingly.”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
“And all the while I am aware of a larger despair, as if Helen & I are vessels for the despair of all women and many men too. Who are we and where are we going? Why are we, with all our ‘progress,’ so limited in understanding & sympathy & the ability to give each other real freedom? Why with our emphasis on the individual are we still so blinded by the urge to conform?”
― Euphoria
― Euphoria
“Marie has a swift vision of herself as a tiny figure, climbing the walls; oh someday she will find her way over the queen’s rampart, someday she will be inside, out of the wind. Eleanor will be a model, then, Marie thinks, for her own purpose on the earth, at this abbey she hates so much. She will build around herself walls of wealth and friends and good clear reputation, she will make her frail sisters safe within. Marie will mold herself in the queen’s form, she thinks.”
― Matrix
― Matrix
“and know all, in only a moment. “Is it?” his mother says, her face white, stretched. “Is it what?” he says, feeling skittish and a little mad, therefore unable to keep himself from lapsing into verbal sparring. “Yours.” “Is what mine?” he returns, almost gleefully. Mary presses her lips together. “Did you put it there?” “Did I put what where?” At this point he is aware of Agnes turning her head to look at him—he can imagine her dark eyes on him, assessing, gathering information, like a spool gathers thread—but he still can’t stop.”
― Hamnet
― Hamnet
Susan’s 2025 Year in Books
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