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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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this was a conceptual direct-action group

Miranda walked away from the bookstore toward the Black House wishing she had stayed and continued talking to Nash. She wished she hadn’t been so sensitive and hadn’t said good night and left. She wanted to talk about the soccer coach and what he had said. And what she really wanted to tell Nash. S…

—p.134 Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta
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keeping their own resistance vital

MIRANDA EXPECTED August 5 (the date of major tests every year, ostensibly because it was the anniversary of some infamous Seattle Wobbly action in the 1920s) to be a focus for all the actions Nash’s groups discussed. The day came and went, with lots of groups participating, but none of Nash’s did a…

—p.130 by Dana Spiotta
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immune to the whims of the body

“She’s a slob. She has this flower child gluttony about her. It’s a waste of energy,” Mel said without hesitating. “You get the sense that she wants the easy way out of everything.”

“That’s a pretty shallow extrapolation. Do tough people have to look tough?”

Mel fixed her eyes on Caroline. “I…

—p.104 by Dana Spiotta
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sybaritic

Berry always seemed to be touching herself, and it made her appear suggestive and sybaritic. But it wasn’t for show, it wasn’t a display.

—p.104 by Dana Spiotta
notable
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restaurant code that ignored people’s past

She made an odd discovery—no one asked her anything. She had her carefully worked-out tale of love lost—just enough Bobby to ring true. She realized or guessed that one day she would get to the point where she wouldn’t even know what was true and what she had made up. So she wouldn’t be lying any l…

—p.97 by Dana Spiotta