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“And I wonder what the sound of a heart breaking might be. And I think it might be quiet, unperceptively so, and not dramatic at all. Like the sound of an exhausted swallow falling gently to earth.”
― Tin Man
― Tin Man
“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“I reserve my most elaborate delusions and disappointments for myself.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
“There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.”
― The Charioteer
― The Charioteer
“There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: "I'll go take a hot bath.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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Akari’s 2025 Year in Books
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