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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my first pair of reading glasses inspo/characterisation

There was a man who brought me my first pair of reading glasses, which I did not need. He was a romantic figure, mostly because he had studied French and adored the difficult r’s of that language. He was tall and good-looking and not very truthful. He was corrupted by an uncertain nature and no one…

—p.14 Sleepless Nights Sleepless Nights (1) by Elizabeth Hardwick
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sacerdotal

To become a sacerdotal offering, very much like those pale schoolteachers in Latin America, men from the poor villages, sweating in their black suits and white shirts, receiving and giving a peculiar list of punishments in their visionary calling.

—p.13 Sleepless Nights (1) by Elizabeth Hardwick
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apotheosis

The apotheosis of a local teaching certificate, a celestial and long-delayed reward for girls.

—p.13 Sleepless Nights (1) by Elizabeth Hardwick
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therefore always unseasonable

“Shame is inventive,” Nietzsche said. And that is scarcely the half of it. From shame I have paid attention to clothes, shoes, rings, watches, accents, teeth, points of deportment, turns of speech. The men on the train are wearing clothes which, made for no season, are therefore always unseasonable…

—p.8 Sleepless Nights (1) by Elizabeth Hardwick
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your first discovery is that you do not exist

The beginning of June was hot. I took a journey, and of course, immediately everything was new. When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist. The phlox bloomed in its faded purples; on the hillside, phallic pines. Foreigners under the arcades, in the basket shops. A steamy haze blu…

—p.5 Sleepless Nights (1) by Elizabeth Hardwick