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“All my life, I have observed a certain kind of person with baffled envy. The person who has never felt the desire to flee. I feel the least in common with this person, and yet I am endlessly fascinated by her. How can one be that content? Is she lucky, the draw of the universe birthing her in a place that fully aligns in temperament and ambition, or is she just complacent? Often, I have to remind myself that staying and leaving can both be points of privilege, but I can’t help it; my vagrancy looks down upon such a person.”
Jan 30, 2024
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I lowkey have kept my copy on me everywhere I go (daily) and travel to For the past like 6 years lol. Idk what it is w/ me and books that take place in/around Italy but they always seem to hit deep.
feel the same about Sandor Marai’s “Casanova in Bolzano” and Susan Sontag’s “The Volcano Lover” a bunch of hitters!
Feb 25, 2025
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This is my favorite book of all time. I have read it at least once a year since I first discovered it, which was by stumbling across this quote: “Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”
Jan 13, 2022
i looked into this book after seeing faye webster’s recommendation about it on here, and i decided i should read it for myself. i’ve been in a bit of a reading slump lately, but i’m happy to say that this pulled me out of it. the book is so beautifully written; it’s an interesting story with a very relatable protagonist, but there’s also so much to learn from it. i annotated it to pieces. i found myself talking about it in conversations, and it really made me reflect on some of my own thought patterns that are like cyrus’. i highly recommend it to anyone looking for their next read :).
here’s a page that i liked so much that i had to take a picture of it in the moment.
Jan 31, 2025
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They weren’t lying when they said gunk will come out of your pores…glass skin era incoming
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🎶 I think my kink is when you tell me that you think I’m pretty 🎶
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Slow flow with Julie <333
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