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what people had shed and left - a pair of shoes, a shooting cap, some faded skirts and coats in wardrobes - these alone kept the human shape and in the emptiness indicated how once they were filled and animated; how once hands were busy with hooks and buttons; how once the look glass had held a face; had held a world hollowed out in which a figure turned, a hand flashed, the door opened, in came children rushing

“he could almost pity these mild cultivated people, who would be blown sky high, like bales of wool and barrels of apples, one of these days by gunpowder that was in him.” mmmmm

“he would have written better books if he had not married.” REF TAKE THEM OUT WTH

“the very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast shakespeare.” woolf knows what’s up

this book is so full of life and hope UGHHH

🎵 cradle, adrianne lenker