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“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,
"You owe me."
Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.”
―
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,
"You owe me."
Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.”
―
“Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.”
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“Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.”
― Selected Poems of Mark Strand
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.”
― Selected Poems of Mark Strand
“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― On the Road
― On the Road
Jill’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jill’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
9,712 books
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61 friends
913 books
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166 friends
1,252 books
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73 friends
1,371 books
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33 friends
1,473 books
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57 friends
830 books
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1,244 friends
2,104 books
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74 friends
1,339 books
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41 friends
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