“Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp ever at all. It is only later, in solitude, in memory that the realization dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself - quite to one's surprise - in an entirely different world.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty - unless she is wed to something more meaningful - is always superficial.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
Stephanie’s 2025 Year in Books
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Art, Christian, Classics, Cookbooks, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Suspense, Thriller, and Young-adult
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