Welcome to Bookmarker!

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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lagniappe

Maybe lasting love is a rare evolutionary lagniappe.

—p.129 by Annie Dillard
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hierophant

Was romance hierophany, or some fowler’s snare that yanked a culture by the toe?

—p.128 by Annie Dillard
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apostate

unless the premise—that there is such a thing as love, and it recurs—was false, so that apostasy was really a lapse into truth, like Galileo’s.

—p.128 by Annie Dillard
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all my husbands were afraid

—I wonder what women need from men that they do not get. In Reevadare’s garden, Jane looked dreamy.

—Courage would be nice, Reevadare said. All my husbands were afraid, every last man jack. She laughed and waved her spotted hands. She looked to Lou like she had gotten over them, every last man j…

—p.126 by Annie Dillard
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lucent

Their minds grew lucent as gels.

—p.125 by Annie Dillard
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