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"The only thing better than reading this as a birthday present to myself (it comes out the day after my birthday) is getting to read an e-arc of it now!!!!!!" — Aug 18, 2025 08:04PM
"The only thing better than reading this as a birthday present to myself (it comes out the day after my birthday) is getting to read an e-arc of it now!!!!!!" — Aug 18, 2025 08:04PM
“I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic effort and nobility of our human desire to make beauty of our minds—which moves me to tears, and I have to brush them away, quickly, before anyone notices.”
― A Tale for the Time Being
― A Tale for the Time Being
“People said that everyone was born alone and everyone would die alone, but they were wrong. When someone was born, they brought so many people with them, generations of people zipped into the marrow of their tiny bones.”
― All Adults Here
― All Adults Here
“That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in order to write it down, I change it, and I can't ever get it back.”
― A Tale for the Time Being
― A Tale for the Time Being
“The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and we are forever picking out constellations from it to fit who and where we are.”
― The Faraway Nearby
― The Faraway Nearby
“She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
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