Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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caesura

In fact, there is a caesura between one piece and the next, but it can only be recognized, or heard, by those who know to listen for it.

—p.131 Speech and Silence (115) by Jenny Erpenbeck
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this girl is my mask

All right. I want to hide behind the girl, she’s my mask, as you know, the mask I wear so that I can run naked across the playing field. So the girl can’t look like me. And she can’t act as I would act. While I turn a smiling face to the world, a face that always makes me look younger than I really…

—p.81 On The Old Child (67) by Jenny Erpenbeck
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a book isn’t there until you write it

Only at that moment did I experience a sort of virginal amazement at the fact that a book isn’t there until you write it. If I don’t make the girl appear, she doesn’t appear. If I don’t make her think, keep quiet, say something now and then, meet this or that person, then she doesn’t think, doesn’t…

—p.79 On The Old Child (67) by Jenny Erpenbeck
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a book isn’t there until you write it

Only at that moment did I experience a sort of virginal amazement at the fact that a book isn’t there until you write it. If I don’t make the girl appear, she doesn’t appear. If I don’t make her think, keep quiet, say something now and then, meet this or that person, then she doesn’t think, doesn’t…

—p.79 On The Old Child (67) by Jenny Erpenbeck
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infernal terms like “desirable location”

[...] Berlin was a capital city, but those infernal terms like “desirable location” were still foreign to us, because all of East Berlin lay outside of the world in which desirable locations existed. Idyll. Innocence. Indecency. Inbreeding. My parents’ furniture was in the Biedermeier style, and ou…

—p.76 On The Old Child (67) by Jenny Erpenbeck