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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7 years, 6 months ago

a collision of DNA

I take your parents to the lighthouse, I do. There is nothing but September fog to cover our shame, and your father laughs just like you, at the opacity. I want to eat the laugh, I want to rub it on my chest like camphor, I want to make a sound tattoo. I also want to bash these two small people tog…

—p.120 Bough Down by Karen Green
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7 years, 6 months ago

quote perfect for me unquote

[...] The doctor says if you were so quote perfect for me unquote you'd probably still be around, no offense.

—p.94 by Karen Green
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7 years, 6 months ago

as small as a comma

Your mother is as small as a comma, asleep in the chair.

—p.87 by Karen Green
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7 years, 6 months ago

strangers feel free to e-mail

Strangers feel free to e-mail:

Nobody knew you before your husband took his life.

—p.74 by Karen Green
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7 years, 6 months ago

the concept of credit in Westward

[...] For Wallace, his 1980s generation may have inherited plenty of spending power from their parents, but again, in the realm of moral values, the children have been left with "an inheritance of absolutely nothing," with useless credit. [...] "Westward" places "credit," a term of finance, in the …

—p.84 David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books: Fictions of Value New Deals (62) by Jeffrey Severs