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"Listening to the audiobook. It works so well. I’m very entertained" — Jan 16, 2026 01:21AM
"Listening to the audiobook. It works so well. I’m very entertained" — Jan 16, 2026 01:21AM
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"Ik begon met frisse tegenzin aan dit boek (want ongefundeerd vooroordeel: zelfhulp boeken zijn belerend en irritant), maar ik heb al best wat zinnen onderstreept." — Nov 05, 2025 10:58PM
"Ik begon met frisse tegenzin aan dit boek (want ongefundeerd vooroordeel: zelfhulp boeken zijn belerend en irritant), maar ik heb al best wat zinnen onderstreept." — Nov 05, 2025 10:58PM
“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
― Sputnik Sweetheart
― Sputnik Sweetheart
“So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness.”
― Sputnik Sweetheart
― Sputnik Sweetheart
“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
for the caged bird sings of freedom.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
for the caged bird sings of freedom.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever. ”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
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