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hika ୨୧
is 90% done
“and the sense of his loss, that he had for so long dammed within him, flooded out, engulfed him, and he let himself be carried outward, beyond the control of his will; he did not wish to save himself. then he smiled fondly, as if at a memory; it occurred to him that he was nearly sixty years old and that he ought to be beyond the force of such passion, of such love.”
— Jan 27, 2026 08:51AM
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hika ୨୧
is 70% done
“he began to know that it [love] was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart.”
— Jan 26, 2026 08:50PM
hika ୨୧
is 70% done
“in his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
— Jan 26, 2026 08:48PM
hika ୨୧
is 54% done
edith’s usage of grace as a weapon in their marriage genuinely makes me sick to my stomach. also, walker’s annoying af. and i think stoner’s lover just got introduced?? Ooooh
— Jan 24, 2026 10:05PM
hika ୨୧
is 40% done
“slowly, year by year, the earth would take them. slowly the damp and rot would infest the pine boxes which held their bodies, and slowly it would touch their flesh, and finally it would consume the last vestiges of their substances. and they would become a meaningless part of that stubborn earth to which they had long ago given themselves.”
— Jan 24, 2026 08:56PM
hika ୨୧
is 33% done
honestly very confused my edith’s intentions and motives. also, postpartum it sounds like?
— Jan 23, 2026 07:31PM
hika ୨୧
is 17% done
reading this book at snail pace. i really like it so far but just feel super unmotivated omg. maybe will lock in tomorrow 😵💫
— Jan 22, 2026 07:22PM
