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).

calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation

Highlighted phrases

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stolid



but I could see how you wouldn’t want these two stolid chairs crowding the living room like judgmental parents.

—p.59 by Miranda July
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4 weeks, 1 day ago


trying to pass as just another stolid example of Upper West Side apartment house

—p.27 by Thomas Pynchon
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4 years, 6 months ago

HORST CAN’T FIND the ice-cream flavor he really needs today and is showing signs of gathering impatience, alarming in one usually so stolid.

—p.131 by Thomas Pynchon
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4 years, 6 months ago

Book of Numbers
by multiple authors

Book of Numbers
by multiple authors

Book of Numbers
by multiple authors


this outstanding reproduction of a hotel, stolid in its blockbound prewar glory, truly the architectural embodiment of everything the city surrounding it has always aspired to

—p.493 by Joshua Cohen
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4 years, 3 months ago


up to 75,000 people took part in the uprising, mostly from the stolid Black working class

Watts

—p.268 The Hammer and the Rock (237) by Mike Davis
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2 years, 7 months ago


who comes to attend you and supply your want, stolidly, pleasantly, or with an independent air

—p.35 Eugénie Grandet (33) by Honoré de Balzac
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3 years, 5 months ago


watched her stolid figure cross the boulevard towards the cafes.

i always think it means stout but i dont think it does

—p.97 Giovanni's Room (1) by James Baldwin
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2 months, 1 week ago


In Nabokov’s brightly mournful late novella Transparent Things (1972), flighty Julia takes the stolid hero, Hugh Person, to the avant-garde play that everyone is talking about

—p.215 France in the Time of Iraq 2: Shock and Awe (211) by Martin Amis
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2 months, 1 week ago


caught a rise and fall of yellow skirting another stolid mass of blue toward the elevators

—p.440 J R (1) by William Gaddis
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1 month, 2 weeks ago


the chairman's legendary walrus mustache: its tremendous stolidity

—p.16 by Philipp Schonthaler
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4 years, 9 months ago


why they had allowed him to accept failure so stolidly at an age when most men are still struggling

—p.79 The Age of Innocence (1) by Edith Wharton
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1 year, 6 months ago


the stolid enablers who shelter rapists and provide cover to sexual abusers

—p.134 Tripped Up (116) missing author
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5 years ago


They had a maid, a middle-aged Mexican woman with a stolid face who came in for two hours every morning and put the place together just long enough for Elena to scatter it again.

—p.335 by Norman Mailer
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10 months, 4 weeks ago


As the stolid rugby players do not, these victims seem to be looking at us

—p.22 W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz (16) by James Wood
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7 years, 4 months ago


Biographies were stolidly installed around the room, each of them as heavy as a cinder block.

—p.235 by Martin Amis
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11 months, 3 weeks ago


his more stolid brother

—p.24 Why? (1) by James Wood
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7 years, 3 months ago


Mr. Inononu stood a stolid five feet and four inches from the ground

—p.648 PART II (279) by William Gaddis
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2 years, 1 month ago


During the day, life stood stolid, gray and oblivious. But at night, heaven came in the cracks.

—p.103 by Mary Gaitskill
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10 months ago

A stolid girl smiled uncertainly as she held the light-blinded eye of the reflector

—p.173 by Mary Gaitskill
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10 months ago


Literature, which had set itself up in order to bring theory to the unwashed undergraduates, in contradistinction to the English department, which was standing stolidly for reading the texts

cute. Caleb Crain

—p.62 Panel 2 (59) missing author
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5 years, 11 months ago