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“You haven’t seen the best of me yet.” I could feel it—some spark still deep in me and dying to burn. That little bit of me that I’d always been holding in reserve, for a time like now, perhaps. I still needed to prove—to myself and to the
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“Ice vs. fire; free choice vs. necessity; weight vs. lightness; emptiness vs. meaning...speaking of emptiness, there was a time today when my whole body felt completely devoid of life and utterly without meaning. A character in one of Edith Wharton's novels says that "the real loneliness comes from all these kind faces who only ask one to pretend..." That is how I felt today, waiting anxiously for my afternoon pick-up, only to be let down, and later, facing the world (as if everything was okay inside). ”
― Encyclopaedia Of Snow
― Encyclopaedia Of Snow
“Judgment helps one to make the appropriate decision at the appropriate moment and diminish the influence of fate.”
― Chang and Eng
― Chang and Eng
“I am paving hell with energy... I am laying down good intentions which I believe durable as flint.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
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“...no matter how beneficial a disappearing act might be for me, I could never tear myself away from a show in progress. Even when the plot's tragic ending is apparent to the entire audience. Perhaps there's a deus ex machina that will lower from the ceiling and turn the whole debacle into a romantic comedy. never can tell. Paid the full ticket price, might as well stay.”
― I Am Not Myself These Days
― I Am Not Myself These Days
Jean’s 2025 Year in Books
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