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'What fun it would be,' he thought, 'if one didn't have to think about happiness!'
“Life was moving forward, always. The world was not going to stop, change was inevitable, finding a way back was a struggle against the current.”
― This Impossible Brightness
― This Impossible Brightness
“How far could the known reality stretch before the fabric tore and someone was flung out into space, or madness?”
― The Town That Feared Dusk
― The Town That Feared Dusk
“Rev. Pat Robertson says that if more states legalize gay marriage, God will destroy America. He did say that afterwards, gays will come in and do a beautiful renovation.”
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“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
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“I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It’s wanting to jump overboard.”
― A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
― A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Alessia’s 2025 Year in Books
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