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“A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off. People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“I was the embodiment of every writer's worst fear: a cliché.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“Mother indulgent. Said I have a queer mind and have read too much. Not true. Have read little and understood less.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“You don't ever want to be the wife who keeps her husband from playing poker - you don't ever want to be the shrew with the curlers and the rolling pin. So you swallow your disappointment and say okay.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“I think maybe, when I was very young, I witnessed a chaste cheek kiss between the two when it was impossible to avoid. Christmas, birthdays. Dry lips. On their best married days, their communications were entirely transactional: 'We're out of milk again.' (I'll get some today.) 'I need this ironed properly.' (I'll do that today.) 'How hard is it to buy milk?' (Silence.) 'You forgot to call the plumber.' (Sigh.) 'Goddammit, put on your coat, right now, and go out and get some goddamn milk. Now.' These messages and orders brought to you by my father, a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
Swayback’s 2024 Year in Books
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707 books
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840 books
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160 books
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466 books
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22 books
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50 books
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0 books
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