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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1 month, 2 weeks ago

you nod and fill your mouth with beer

You slip into a bar on Forty-fourth, a nice anonymous Irish place where no one has anything on his mind except drinking and sports. On a big video screen at the far end of the long wooden bar is some kind of sporting event. You take a stool and order a beer, then turn your attention to the screen. …

—p.85 Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

the bouquet you ordered for her return topic/heartbreak

It is a warm, humid afternoon. Spring, apparently. Late April or early May. Amanda left in January. There was snow on the ground the morning she called, a whiteness that turned gray and filthy by noon and then disappeared down the sewer grates. Later that morning the florist called about the bouque…

—p.84 by Jay McInerney
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

she said she wasn’t coming home

A few months ago she was packing for a trip to Paris when she began to cry. You asked her what was wrong. She said she was nervous about the trip. By the time the cab arrived she was fine. You kissed at the door. She told you to water the plants.

The day before she was due home, she called. Her …

—p.75 by Jay McInerney
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

there was always something elusive about her

You were busy with your own work. There were nights you got home after she was asleep. You looked at her across the breakfast nook in the morning and it often seemed that she was looking through the walls of the apartment building halfway across the continent to the plains, as if she had forgotten …

—p.75 by Jay McInerney
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

knee-deep in amber waves of grain inspo/meet-cute

Amanda grew up smack in the heart of the heartland. You met her in a bar and couldn’t believe your luck. You never would have worked up the hair to hit on her, but she came right up and started talking to you. As you talked you thought: She looks like a goddamned model and she doesn’t even know it.…

—p.69 by Jay McInerney