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“it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still
as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it
in the warm New York 4 o’clock light we are drifting back and forth
between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles”
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as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it
in the warm New York 4 o’clock light we are drifting back and forth
between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles”
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“Writing is losing focus and winning it back, only to lose it once more.”
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
“Even when I’m caught off guard by a lathery shade of peach on the bottom corner of a painting at the Met, as if being reminded that I haven’t seen all the colors, and how there’s more to see, and how one color’s newness can invalidate all of my sureness.”
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
“Nook people are those of us who need solitude, but also the sound of someone puttering in the next room.”
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
“But it was a significant exercise, for it meant that I considered myself worthy, as I had never done before. That change in my consciousness was so bewildering that I looked back on my previous life with a sort of amazed pity. That narrowness, those scruples, that prolonged childhood... I even, and this is a great test, began to consider journeys I might make, for my own pleasure, without him. I had never been to Greece and I thought I might go now, some time soon. And I knew that if I went I should enjoy it, as I had never enjoyed a journey before. Because I should have James to come back to. By the very fact of his existence, he had given the validity to my entire future.”
― Look at Me
― Look at Me
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Kylie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kylie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
140 books
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1,178 friends
461 books
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76 friends
78 books
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783 friends
61 books
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3 friends
224 books
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36 friends
56 books
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218 friends
29 books
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6 friends
13 books
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2 friends
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