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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.

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time stops when someone dies project/valet-story topic/grief

Time stops when someone dies. Of course it stops for them, maybe, but for the mourners time runs amok. Death comes too soon. It forgets the tides, the days growing longer and shorter, the moon. It rips up the calendar. You aren’t at your desk or on the subway or fixing dinner for the children. You’…

—p.380 A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories Wait a Minute (380) by Lucia Berlin
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I kept thinking he’d pull up behind me project/valet-story

I hoped he’d say he’d wait for me, that he’d still be here when I got back. But he said that if I really loved him I’d marry him right now. I reacted to that. He needs to graduate; he only works part-time. I didn’t say more of the truth which is that I don’t want to leave school. I want to study Sh…

—p.219 Dear Conchi (211) by Lucia Berlin
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there is no place where it will all live again

She died on April 14. At her funeral, of all the passages of all the books she’d written, Lanzmann chose to read the last paragraph of Force of Circumstance:

I loathe the thought of annihilating myself quite as much now as I ever did. I think with sadness of all the books I’ve read, all the …

—p.166 A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again Simone (135) by Joanna Biggs
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Ferrante inspired one of my first attempts

When I separated from my husband, I lived in the flat we’d bought together while he lived elsewhere, first with a friend and then in a place that we paid for out of our joint account. I tried to fill it with a life of my own, but I could only manage it in fits and starts. Ferrante inspired one of m…

—p.232 Elena (230) by Joanna Biggs
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prolix

As a body of work, hers feels accidental, prolix, and messy: not the work of a concrete block, but of a woman.

—p.160 Simone (135) by Joanna Biggs
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