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"I finally made it past the first, really dark, chapters. They were incredibly difficult to read – even though very well written – I can only imagine how difficult it was to translate and edit that section of the book. Going over the segments again and again... This is not to say that chapter Three isn't violent. It is. But in a different way. A way that allows me to continue reading, slightly less visceral." Apr 13, 2017 05:23AM

 
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I do not like Hardie, it was beastly what he said about Ravi being only clever. And he wrote a foolish book. Being good-looking and interesting and having the heavy-lidded gaze of a romantic tapir does not excuse writing a foolish book.
Nathaniel
This 'tapir' thing made me laugh out loud! A little more when I got it confused with a capybara and couldn't find the quote :")
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Virginia Woolf
“For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.”
Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

Jeffrey Eugenides
“Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever. ”
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

Jeanette Winterson
“What you risk reveals what you value.”
Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

Virginia Woolf
“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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