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When Harry Met Sally by Nora Ephron
HARRY I love you. You know that.
SALLY I love you too.
HARRY When I say, “I love you,” you know what I mean—
SALLY I know what you mean. I know.
SALLY I love you too.
HARRY When I say, “I love you,” you know what I mean—
SALLY I know what you mean. I know.
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
4.5
i think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. i have known so many sick women all my life. women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. women with conditions. [...] women get consumed. not surprising, considering the sheer amount of traffic a woman's body experiences. men love to put things inside women, don't they?
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
4.0
if i was bound to hell let it be hell. no more false heavens. no more damned magic. you hate me and i hate you. we'll see who hates best. [...] my hate is colder, stronger, and you'll have no hate to warm yourself. you will have nothing.
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell
in his sermons, he reckoned us a disaster, but the most spectacular disaster that had ever been
The Wild Iris by Louise Glück
i planted the seeds, i watched the first shoots
like wings tearing the soil, and it was my heart
broken by the blight
like wings tearing the soil, and it was my heart
broken by the blight
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
in 'england in my bones' white wrote one of the saddest sentences i have ever read: 'falling in love is a desolating experience, but not when it is with a countryside.' he could not imagine a human love returned. he had to displace his desires onto the landscape, that great, blank green field that cannot love you back, but cannot hurt you either. [...] when white writes of his love for the countryside, at heart he is writing about a hope that he might be able to love himself.