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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on fairy tales

[...] Fairy tales are children's stories not in who they were made for but in their focus on the early stages of life, when others have power over you and you have power over no one.

—p.14 Apricots (1) by Rebecca Solnit
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bucolic

the residential care facility with the bucolic name

—p.10 Apricots (1) by Rebecca Solnit
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Scheherazade the working-class hero

[...] Scheherazade, like a working-class hero, seized control of the means of production and talked her way out.

—p.4 Apricots (1) by Rebecca Solnit
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to be without a story

What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compases and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. [...]

—p.3 Apricots (1) by Rebecca Solnit