"I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"
- Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

I'm Philippa, 24, and I'm from London.

~ Tuesday, September 6 ~
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“ For a moment I could imagine what it would be like to be a ghost - to walk forever through a silence deeper than silence, to apprehend but never quite reach the lights of home.
— Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World
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~ Friday, September 2 ~
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“ We become the stories we tell about ourselves.
— Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World
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~ Wednesday, August 31 ~
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“ The secret of flight is this - you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws. I swear it to this day.
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Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

Every time I find myself able to read for my own pleasure without feelings of guilt about neglecting uni work, my reading becomes erratic. I pick up books and put them down again after a few pages simply because there are so many books that I want to read now that I am able to, that I can’t focus on one. A Home at the End of the World was the book that captured my attention and made me concentrate on just one book this time. The first few chapters are amongst the most beautiful, tragic, traumatic things I’ve ever read.

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