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It took me 11 days to read this book. It felt like much longer (and now just because of good old ‘rona). Reading this was tough. The plot was long-winded and filled with a continual rehash of the same dinner parties and afternoon teas. Like.. even mo
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"Home stretch. (Also, is Harriet going back to Mr Martin? She can’t be ending up solo, and the only other bachelor is Mr Woodhouse..)" — Apr 19, 2020 02:12AM
"Home stretch. (Also, is Harriet going back to Mr Martin? She can’t be ending up solo, and the only other bachelor is Mr Woodhouse..)" — Apr 19, 2020 02:12AM
“That was the thrill of youth, the idea that you could be anyone. That was what had captured her in the charm shop, all those years ago. Then adulthood came, your choices solidifying, and you realize that everything you are had been set in motion years before. The rest was aftermath.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“There is a defiance in being a dreamer”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Her death hit in waves. Not a flood, but water lapping steadily at her ankles. You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“What she needs are stories.
Stories are a way to preserve one's self. To be remembered. And to forget.
Stories come in so many forms: in charcoal, and in song, in paintings, poems, films. And books.
Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Stories are a way to preserve one's self. To be remembered. And to forget.
Stories come in so many forms: in charcoal, and in song, in paintings, poems, films. And books.
Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Our lives here are inexpressibly trivial and momentous at once, it seems he’s about to wake up and say. Both repetitive and unprecedented. We matter greatly and not at all. To reach some pinnacle of human achievement only to discover that your achievements are next to nothing and that to understand this is the greatest achievement of any life, which itself is nothing, and also much more than everything. Some metal separates us from the void; death is so close. Life is everywhere, everywhere.”
― Orbital
― Orbital
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