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"I suspected there would be child abuse described in this book. I persevered because the story was really interesting and otherwise unpredictable. I’m just not sure I want to continue now it’s becoming explicit. I read for pleasure, entertainment and education, and at the moment it’s just not ticking those boxes. Let me know if anyone thinks I should continue despite this ick feeling." — Feb 15, 2020 03:09PM
"I suspected there would be child abuse described in this book. I persevered because the story was really interesting and otherwise unpredictable. I’m just not sure I want to continue now it’s becoming explicit. I read for pleasure, entertainment and education, and at the moment it’s just not ticking those boxes. Let me know if anyone thinks I should continue despite this ick feeling." — Feb 15, 2020 03:09PM
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
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“she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
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“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
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“The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Jillian’s 2025 Year in Books
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