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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gabardine

he got down on one gabardined knee

—p.36 Words and Music (35) by Zadie Smith
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somniferous

the strong yet somniferous current

—p.34 The Lazy River (25) by Zadie Smith
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creating surplus value for bloated plutocrats project/panopticon

From above came the noise of the workers laboring, hammering and nailing, creating surplus value for bloated plutocrats, while down below two anarchists [...]

—p.21 Sentimental Education (5) by Zadie Smith
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it was ridiculous that they were in love

"We live in love."

But it was ridiculous that they were in love! They were nineteen! What were they gong to do: just stay in love all through college and perhaps even beyond, two people who had grown up practically right next door to each other? Just stick it out all the way to the end, a la s…

—p.17 Sentimental Education (5) by Zadie Smith
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next stop menopause and no more denim inspo/interiority

[...] Probably her husband had his own dull map of roads not traveled. You grow conventional in middle life. Choices made over time present themselves as branches running off the solid oaks that line the overground route to Kensal Rise. You grow gray, and thick in the hips. Yet, on happier days, sh…

—p.7 Sentimental Education (5) by Zadie Smith