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There are oases. They are to be found, sometimes, by some of us. But we shall never find an oasis in the spell of the mirage.
“It was so humiliating the way she’d lingered, hoping for his attention—like a dog that didn’t know that it had been abandoned, that kept on coming back. He was not rude to her. In fact he was perfectly polite, wearing that classic Murdoch smile. He gave her the same kind attentiveness that he would to any stranger. But this hurt, for she had thought they were anything but.”
― Katabasis
― Katabasis
“You want me to pretend that I love you.”
“It’s easy,” he said. “Just assume our wills are united.”
“What does that mean?”
“Well, that we want all the same things. That we want what’s best for each other. That we take one another’s ends as our own, and that our ideal outcome is one in which we’re together. Haven’t you ever been in love?”
― Katabasis
“It’s easy,” he said. “Just assume our wills are united.”
“What does that mean?”
“Well, that we want all the same things. That we want what’s best for each other. That we take one another’s ends as our own, and that our ideal outcome is one in which we’re together. Haven’t you ever been in love?”
― Katabasis
“She knew only a version of him, at a brief moment in time.”
― Katabasis
― Katabasis
“He demanded so little or his body, and yet it would not even afford him this.”
― Katabasis
― Katabasis
“Everyone knew that the nicer a library was, the better the work you did within it.”
― Katabasis
― Katabasis
Alexandra’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alexandra’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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92 friends
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305 books
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281 books
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651 books
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113 books
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196 books
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475 books
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