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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an awakening and a change of direction

I've met privileged young people who were shocked when they discovered the destructive force of injustice in the lives of others around them. Some left their careers to work for human rights or to teach or to tend the damaged. Many lives have a moment of rupture that is an awakening and a change of…

—p.152 The Faraway Nearby Unwound (141) by Rebecca Solnit
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sundered

The words on that sutured, sundered book of leaves

—p.149 Unwound (141) by Rebecca Solnit
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penury

Luxuries and fine goods had been scarce in Iceland's penurious past

—p.143 Unwound (141) by Rebecca Solnit
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aegis

everything had gone well under her aegis

basically "shield"

—p.136 Knot (117) by Rebecca Solnit
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