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“There is really nothing more to say—except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.”

“The life of Saint Augustine has a special appeal because he was a great sinner who became a great Saint…”

“My fear was now of another kind. I felt sure that the creature was what we call “good,” but I wasn’t sure whether I like “goodness” so much as I had supposed. This is a very terrible experience. As long as what you are afraid of is something evil, you may still hope that the good may come to your rescue. But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that is also dreadful?”

“How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to
wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn’t anybody’s fault but your own.”

Trying not to read all my NYRB books before March but it’s difficult

Colonel Sanders??

Can a living person have a ghost?

Fever dream so far

Been wanting to read this one since I finished stoner

Just in time for Christmas

Francis mentioned?

He’s backkkk

I hate Vegas

“Sitting there on the edge of her bed, it felt like the waking-up moment between dream and daylight where everything merged and mingled just as it was about to change, all the same, fluid, euphoric slide:rainy light..”

What do u have for me this time Ms Tartt?

“Rarely do we choose our road,” I said, and smiled. “But we can choose how we walk it. Every day.”

I am deeply terrified to start this

NOOOO😭

I am not prepared for part 3

Okay fair enough Mr. Islington you made the Luciem plot interesting

You can’t force me to care about the Luciem story when Res plot line has Emissa and Eidhin

Been waiting on this one awhile

Re-read to prepare for Strength of the Few

Spooky

“It was fun. People get hung up on happiness and joy, but fun will take you at least as far and it’s generally cheaper to obtain”

Fall re-read(listen): this time listening to Tartt narrate the audiobook. Excited to see how I feel after it.

My head hurts

The influence of Tolkien is felt by the 25+ different words for snow in here