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“The town at the mercy of a deep loneliness during the day and, come night, of large cats. There’s a beautiful river running through it, and an old stone bridge spanning the river. But it’s not where we should stay.”
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Book 3 (2Q84 2)
On this particular cold and drizzly Friday night, Lidl was also a place to hide. He did not want to go home. Friday nights, traditionally assigned to partying and relief and enjoyment, were becoming increasingly depressing. He did not want to go home at the end of yet another week to the woman standing at the sink with the different mouth, to feel
... See moreDiana Evans • Ordinary People: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019

There is something in the first grey streaks stretching along the eastern horizon and throwing an indistinct light upon the face of the deep, which combines with the boundlessness and unknown depth of the sea around you, and gives one a feeling of loneliness, of dread, and of melancholy foreboding, which nothing else in nature can give. This gradua
... See moreRichard Henry Dana • Two Years Before the Mast
pregnant piece of nonsense.
Aldous Huxley • The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
Sometimes Lina feels she is as in love with the river as she is with the man she meets there.
Lisa Taddeo • Three Women: THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
Mike Hobson • 4 cards
Mary Oliver
Myq Kaplan • 1 card