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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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bathos

It was just a schmaltzy movie, a bathetic trigger for the romantic feelings, forged in my teens, that still lurked within me.

—p.243 by Sarah Manguso
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I was mourning a romantic image of her

I thought of us walking together, a little bent, bony, stepping carefully, in our very old age, our gnarled hands clasped. His eyes are still a shocking green. Our hair is white. We walk together like people who have had fifty years to learn each other’s gaits and to learn how to respond to each ot…

—p.242 by Sarah Manguso
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a bottomless pit of entitlement

A husband might be nothing but a bottomless pit of entitlement. You can throw all your love and energy and attention down into it, and the hole will never fill.

—p.239 by Sarah Manguso
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please let there be a lesson at the end of this

I was still trying to explain to myself how I’d become this person, this discarded wife, when I’d never even wanted to be a wife in the first place.

I wrote in my notebook, Please let there be a lesson at the end of this.

—p.206 by Sarah Manguso
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his art career and day job both got fives

Early in our marriage, John had said we should make our life decisions mathematically, with numeric values assigned to each category. His art career and day job both got fives. Mine got threes because my career was more advanced than his and my day job didn’t pay as much as his. When I suggested th…

—p.206 by Sarah Manguso