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“Beauty could not love you back. People were not what they seemed and certainly not what they said. Madness was contagious. Memory served melancholy. The medieval was not so bad. Gravity was a form of nostalgia. There could be virtue in satirizing virtue. Dwight Eisenhower and Werner von Braun had the exact same mouths. No one loved a loser until he completely lost. The capital of Burma was Rangoon.”
― A Gate at the Stairs
― A Gate at the Stairs
“Love is the answer, said the songs, and that's OK. It was OK, I supposed, as an answer. But no more than that. It was not a solution; it wasn't really even an answer, just a reply.”
― A Gate at the Stairs
― A Gate at the Stairs
“Life was unendurable, and yet everywhere it was endured.”
― A Gate at the Stairs
― A Gate at the Stairs
“I used to think that those essentially happy and romantic novels that ended with a wedding were all wrong, that they had left out the most interesting part of the story.”
― A Gate at the Stairs
― A Gate at the Stairs
“Blasts from the past were like the rooms one entered and re-entered in dreams: they would not stay nailed down. When you returned to them, they had changed - they suddenly had more space or a tilt or a door that had not been there before. New people were milling around, the floors undulated, and the sun shone newly, strangely in the windows, or through the now blasted-open ceiling, or else it shone not at all, as if having fled the sky.”
― A Gate at the Stairs
― A Gate at the Stairs
kristy’s 2025 Year in Books
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109 friends
360 books
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52 books
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387 books
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152 books
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546 books
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634 books
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115 friends
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