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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
“Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,
we ourselves flash and yearn”
― The Dream Songs
After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,
we ourselves flash and yearn”
― The Dream Songs
“Intense love always leads to mourning.”
― The Triumph of Achilles
― The Triumph of Achilles
“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
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