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

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sitting in empty, fifth-rate bars

I thought that it was only, perhaps, that we were alone too much and so, for a while, we were always going out. We made expeditions to Nice and Monte Carlo and Cannes and Antibes. But we were not rich and the south of France, in the wintertime, is a playground for the rich. Hella and I went to a lo…

—p.149 Giovanni's Room Giovanni's Room (1) by James Baldwin
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who thinks babies come out of cabbages

'But you can have a life with Hella. With that moon-faced little girl who thinks babies come out of cabbages—or frigidaires, I am not acquainted with the mythology of your country. You can have a life with her.'

—p.133 Giovanni's Room (1) by James Baldwin