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“When Vivian broke up with me I cried a bit. A few crap tears. It felt obligatory, it was the end of my first major adult relationship. I squeezed the tears out, in a kind of “woe as me” way. She didn‘t cry. She‘s quite unsentimental. She was the unattainable beauty I attained. But I couldn‘t hold on to her”.

“The boy in the bed was just fifteen years old.”

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"There is a framed photograph on Lila's bedside table that she hasn't yet had the energy, or perhaps the inclination, to get rid of."

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In Kellner Books on the Upper East Side of New York City, a few minutes before his death, John Webber was reading The Count of Monte Cristo.

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“Major Picquart to see the Minister of War…”
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A novel about the historical Dreyfus Affair, late 1890s France, in which a Jewish officer in the French army was (knowingly) wrongly convicted of treason and sent to Devil‘s Island. Picquart was the officer who came to believe in his innocence.

Conscription day is always the deadliest.
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Decided on a whim to see what the big deal is with this one. I used to read a lot of fantasy, but this'll be my first big one in a few years. Looking forward to it 🤗

"The Gibbelins eat, as is well known, nothing less good than man."

- The Hoard of the Gibbelins, Lord Dunsany

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The night is as bright as day with star shells bursting and the muzzle flashes of the eight-inch guns on the heavy cruisers blowing the hell out of the Houston next to us, while the searchlights of the Japanese destroyers are lighting up our ship like a cinema screen.
A WW2 memoir
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