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...You'd think it would only last a moment, this dealy of God standing back, before stepping forward again to finish the canvas, but it appears to be going on forever. But who knows how long or short this world of ours seems from the vanishing point of eternity."

"After God created the heavens and the earth, he stood back to contemplate creation, like a painter standing back from the canvas.

This is the moment we are living in -- the moment of God standing back. Who knows how long it has been going for? Since the beginning of time, no doubt. But how long is that? And for how much longer will it continue?...

i feel like i am going to start crying this book is so beautiful

im like uncovering parts of myself i didnt know were there or something what the fuckkkkkkkkkk

naoise dolan you have done it again.

i almost missed my stop on the subway yesterday because i was so entranced. this book is spiritual practice

"Each time seniors had me sign their yearbooks, I wrote, "Good Luck!" then stared off into space, thinking of all the wisdom I could impart but didn't."

"'What's with the birds?' he asked.

'They're Egyptian crows,' I told him. 'But I'm going to shoot them all.'

I figured they were weirdos and nothing I said to them mattered"

Love The Weirdos my favorite story so far (4 stories in)

"At the salad bar, Ivan put lettuce and tomatoes in a bowl and topped them with dressing. I also put some things in a bowl but at the end it wasn't a salad, it was just a lot of random things in a bowl."

"I read Ivan's messages over and over, thinking about what they meant. I felt ashamed, but why? Why was it more honorable to reread and interpret a novel like Lost Illusions than to reread and interpret some email from Ivan?"

"I read Ivan's messages over and over, thinking about what they meant. I felt ashamed, but why? Why was it more honorable to reread and interpret a novel like Lost Illusions than to reread and interpret some email from Ivan?"

"i wrote her phone number on my hand, while she wrote mine in her daily planner. Already I was the impetuous one in our friendship--the one who cared less about tradition and personal safety, who evaluated every situation from scratch, as if it had arisen for the first time-- while Svetlana was the one who subscribed to rules and systems..."

FUCK THE CURRENTLY READING UPDATE CHARACTER COUNT LIMIT

so tempted to DNF this

“But like all abnormalities and embarrassments of childhood, adulthood recalibrated them into fascinating identity CV”

I just don’t know if I’m a fantasy girl anymore… might have outgrown the genre. It doesn’t fit the philosophy of how I want to shape my life

intriguing… but confusing… and a little bit boring…

finally starting this

“I looked like a girl you’d expect to see on a city bus, reading some clothbound book from the library about plants or geography, perhaps wearing a net over my light brown hair.”

love this opening sentence

“I hate being bombarded by lots of ideas at one time; it feels to me like overeating.”

« We burn and bleed and cry, fully aware that the most the sport can give us, in the very best scenario, is incomprehensible meager and worthless: just a few isolated moments of transcendence. That’s all.

But what the hell else is life made of? »

« when the season is over he’ll go home and —deep down— will wish what we all wish whenever we leave something: that it’s going to collapse. That nothing will work without us. That we’re indispensable. But nothing will happen, the rink will remain standing, and the club will live on. »

cant wait to be done w this

i just want to be done with this!

im sorry but this relationship is bad vibes

literally so bored

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