Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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true alto worked two ways

Looking down made something go easier in Danny. When he first came to New York, he and his friends tried to find a name for the relationship they craved between themselves and the universe. But the English language came up short: perspective, vision, knowledge, wisdom—those words were all too heavy…

—p.6 The Keep by Jennifer Egan
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I was going to cut that dog story inspo/metafiction

WHAT’S AMAZING ABOUT THIS STRUCTURE IS THAT YOU CAN JUST dump any material you have in here and leave it up to the reader to connect it to the rest of the work. I was going to cut that dog story, but why should I? It evokes a mood. It relates to my themes. When I saw it happen it was somehow incred…

—p.180 Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
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some of these men might be faking it with me

AN IMPORTANT THING TO REMEMBER WHEN LYING, TO REMAIN cool and not nervous, is that other people care much more about themselves than they care about you. It never occurred to me that some of these men might be faking it with me.

—p.196 by Lauren Oyler
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I was going to cut that dog story inspo/metafiction

WHAT’S AMAZING ABOUT THIS STRUCTURE IS THAT YOU CAN JUST dump any material you have in here and leave it up to the reader to connect it to the rest of the work. I was going to cut that dog story, but why should I? It evokes a mood. It relates to my themes. When I saw it happen it was somehow incred…

—p.180 by Lauren Oyler
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these people just wanted to talk about themselves inspo/self-deprecation

I WAS STARTING TO GET ANNOYED. THESE PEOPLE JUST WANTED to talk about themselves. They weren’t giving me a chance to talk about my characters.

—p.168 by Lauren Oyler