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“Things and people moved around me, taking positions in obscure hierarchies, participating in systems I didn't know about and never would. A complex network of objects and concepts. You live through certain things before you understand them. You can't always take the analytical position.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“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
“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”
― Love and Friendship
― Love and Friendship
“If music stops, and art ceases, and beauty fades, what have we then?”
― Lovely War
― Lovely War
“Let them start their dreadful wars, let destruction rain down, and let plague sweep through, but I will still be here, doing my work, holding humankind together with love like this.”
― Lovely War
― Lovely War
alyssa’s 2025 Year in Books
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