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

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bathos

It was just a schmaltzy movie, a bathetic trigger for the romantic feelings, forged in my teens, that still lurked within me.

—p.243 by Sarah Manguso
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somnolent

I felt the usual fury, blanketed by the usual somnolence.

—p.59 by Sarah Manguso
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abeyance

Sandy’s intricate, difficult self was in abeyance, his beautiful body left behind was like her hostage

—p.213 by Tessa Hadley
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emollient

she lacked Barbara’s emollient social lightness and deprecating charm

thought it meant like. bubbly

—p.111 by Tessa Hadley
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portentous

Her silence is portentous, smooth and sealed.

—p.80 Aren’t You Having Any? (75) by Rachel Cusk
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