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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One) by Patrick Rothfuss (Goodreads author) bookshelves: currently-reading, to-borrow |
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Penguin Book Of Canadian Short Stories (Paperback) by Jane Urquhart bookshelves: currently-reading, own |
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Jude the Obscure (Audiobook) by Thomas Hardy bookshelves: 2009-summer-audiobooks, currently-reading |
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The Two Georges: The Novel of an Alternate America (Two Georges) by Richard Dreyfuss bookshelves: to-read |
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Storm Glass (Glass, #1) by Maria V. Snyder (Goodreads author) bookshelves: to-read |
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"A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal."
— Douglas Coupland (The Gum Thief: A Novel)
— Douglas Coupland (The Gum Thief: A Novel)
"I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts."
— Douglas Coupland (The Gum Thief: A Novel)
— Douglas Coupland (The Gum Thief: A Novel)
"...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes."
— Douglas Coupland (The Gum Thief: A Novel)
— Douglas Coupland (The Gum Thief: A Novel)
"People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, "If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it." They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could."
— Heather O'Neill (Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel)
— Heather O'Neill (Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel)
"Like all of my important memories, it has a potency that has influenced the pocket of time that holds it, so I can remember that particular Saturday afternoon, even though in many ways it was no different from any other. I can remember, for example, what van der Glick was wearing as she stepped out of the elevator, which was a dress covered with clownish polka dots. Rainie would make these heartbreaking stabs at femininity; indeed, she still does. It's not that she doesn't possess a woman's body now, and didn't posses a girl's body then. But clothes never seemed to fit her correctly, and the more girlish they were, the worse they would hang."
— Paul Quarrington (The Ravine)
— Paul Quarrington (The Ravine)
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