LitFic

[dog-eared-reads]

“as if only the ghost of the world were crying outside, as if the known world of familiar associations had disappeared, and that which remained must seem but the conspiracy of memories and dreams floating without purpose, without limitation.”—Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, Marguerite Young

[dog-eared-reads]

“It is the desperate moment when we discover that this empire, which had seemed to is the sum of all wonders, is an endless, formless ruin, that corruption’s gangrene has spread too far to be healed by our sceptre, that the triumph over enemy sovereigns has made us the heir of their long undoing.”—Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino

[dog-eared-reads]

"The daughter is the mother's idol, and Mother demands only a tiny tribute: Erika's life. Mother wants to utilize the child's life herself."―The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek

[academic-vampire]

𝔭𝔦𝔫𝔰 𝔞𝔟𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔟𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔰

[bowsbook]

Annotating 🤌🏻

[dog-eared-reads]

"We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments."—Chess Story, Stefan Zweig

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

honestly yall just gotta be comfortable reading books that make you feel stupid

[dog-eared-reads]

“In the lives of emperors there is a moment which follows pride in the boundless extension of the territories we have conquered, and the melancholy and relief of knowing we shall soon give up any thought of knowing and understanding them.”—Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino

[dog-eared-reads]

"She will prolong her life by telling her story, even though time will wear on inexorably as she tells it, thus depriving her of the chance to have a new experience."―The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek

[logophilist1982]

Used books aesthetic

[dog-eared-reads]

“All her days were her nights, and all her nights were her days, and there was an eternal twilight, an obfuscation of faces, a crucial bewilderment”—Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, Marguerite Young

[lasmarginatura-archive]

elena ferrante, my brilliant friend // la_melancolia

[vintage-tigre]

[dog-eared-reads]

"Erika is an insect encased in amber, timeless, ageless. She has no history, and she doesn't make a fuss. This insect has long since lost it's ability to creep and crawl."―The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek

[logophilist1982]

Old library

[dog-eared-reads]

“I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see words printed one after another, lines, pages, leaves, a book in which I could pursue new, different, fresh thoughts to divert me, could take them into my brain, had something both intoxicating and stupefying about it.”―Chess Story, Stefan Zweig

[http-tempted]