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“The
Earth, after all, doesn’t creak and groan its way around the sun
just so human beings can have a good time and a bit of a laugh.”
― Sputnik Sweetheart
Earth, after all, doesn’t creak and groan its way around the sun
just so human beings can have a good time and a bit of a laugh.”
― Sputnik Sweetheart
“I liked the idea of living in a city — any city, especially a strange one — liked the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of solitary life I might slip into? Meals alone, walking the dogs in the evenings; and nobody knowing who I was.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an instant I dared to shake off my chains, and look around me with a free and lofty spirit; but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“Abandoning a lifelong belief that to name happiness is to dissipate it, she smiled at herself in the mirror and told herself silently, You are happy, Eleanor, you have finally been given a part of your measure of happiness.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
katri’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at katri’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
325 books
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72 friends
444 books
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20 friends
347 books
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52 friends
413 books
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51 friends
39 books
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1 friend
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