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“I feed too much on the inward sources; I live too much with the dead. My mind is something like the ghost of an ancient, wandering about the world and trying mentally to construct it as it used to be, in spite of ruin and confusing changes.”

Mr Casaubon really nailed what it’s like studying history :/

have left the warm filter scenes of Gerwig's adaptation and now we're in the cool tone scenes.... please!! stop!! growing!! up!!

well this is just capital!

"The past settles into afternoons, that's where time visibly slows down, it dozes off in the corners, blinking like a cat looking through thin blinds."

Emily St. John Mandel is the glass of water you reach for on your bedside table at 3am

“…[I was] caught up in the dream of travel, the travel-trance that overtakes you when there are no familiar landmarks to remind you you are making progress, when it seems you have no destination and the landscape you are moving through goes on forever.”

^^ average experience on a VIA Rail train chugging thru the Windsor corridor

I s2g if I have to read the expository sentence “I was terrified” one more time, I ain’t gonna be able to finish this book

Crummey crafts his characters like a master toymaker carves his dolls. One by one he picks them up, winds them, and whispers, “Go. Show us what you can do.”