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Geral(dine) is on page 147 of 297
πŸ“š 146
A fiend had come in the night to take an ice-cream scoop to my brain and made off with my darkest emotional flavours, fury, humiliation, self-pity, desolation. If they all came back at once, they would wreck me. Any day now, I told myself, I would start to feel.
— Oct 25, 2026 02:15PM
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Geral(dine)
Geral(dine) is on page 230 of 297
πŸ“š 227 (Alzheimer's/Dementia)
She was, he said, like a drowning woman breaking the surface to gulp the air for the last time. I said if Percy had a moment like that, it would frighten me. It would be like a haunting.
— 11 hours, 58 min ago
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Geral(dine)
Geral(dine) is on page 221 of 297
πŸ’¬ sat for this much more human Vivien πŸ’…
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Geral(dine)
Geral(dine) is on page 215 of 297
πŸ“š 212
There should have been something both dark and grand, even dramatic, in witnessing the person you love cast off, piece by piece, all the elements of their being in relentless disintegration. But the day-to-day reality of the process was its banality. Percy's consciousness was a closing door. He became simple, boring, repetitious, unlovely.
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Geral(dine)
Geral(dine) is on page 193 of 297
— Oct 27, 2026 01:49PM
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Geral(dine)
Geral(dine) is on page 173 of 297
πŸ“š 172
That our presence here, screened from each other by time, constituted a separate reality, was at the core of my obsession, (...)

πŸ“š173
A million historical movies, novels and serious histories expressed our yearning to keep the past with us. Kind or cruel, it haunted us, and its ghosts, unlike most, were real.
— Oct 26, 2026 01:57PM
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Geral(dine)
Geral(dine) is on page 151 of 297
πŸ“š 148 - the Corona
His present to Vivien was more about himself than her, which was why he needed to perform it to the company on that evening in October 2014.
— Oct 25, 2026 02:17PM
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Geral(dine)
Geral(dine) is on page 145 of 297
πŸ“š 145
'no ideas but in things'. It's become his catchphrase. After breakfast he sometimes murmurs those words as he kisses me and heads off to his shed for the day's work.

Three years later she returned to the passage and scribbled in the margin, 'In love, we forgot that we too were things that could get broken or lost.'
— Oct 25, 2026 02:11PM
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Geral(dine)
Geral(dine) is on page 144 of 297
πŸ“š 144
Vivien was closer to the truth when she wrote, three weeks after the wedding, 'what's so lovely is that basically, in a quiet way, he's simply glad he exists. Whatever the difficulty, the baseline isn't disturbed Then that line becomes mine too.'
— Oct 25, 2026 02:09PM
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Geral(dine)
Geral(dine) is on page 130 of 297
— Oct 23, 2026 11:57AM
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Geral(dine)
Geral(dine) is on page 108 of 297
πŸ“š 107
The Corona was more beautiful for not being known. (...) it presented to posterity the pure form, the ideal of all poetry.(...) The imagined lords it over the actual - no paradox or mystery there. Many religious believers do not want their God depicted or described. (...) Living out our lives within unexamined or contradictory assumptions, we inhabit a fog of dreams and seem to need them.
— Oct 21, 2026 01:46PM
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