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It was a generation growing in its disillusionment about the deepening recession and the backroom handshakes and greedy deals for private little pots of gold that created the largest financial meltdown since the Great Depression. As heirs to the throne, we all knew, of course, how bad the economy was, and our dreams, the ones we were told were all right to dream, were teetering gradually toward disintegration. However, on that night, everyone seemed physically at ease and exempt from life’s worries with final exams over and bar class a distant dream with a week before the first lecture, and as I looked around at the jubilant faces and loud voices, if you listened carefully enough you could almost hear the culmination of three years in the breath of the night gasp in an exultant sigh as if to say, “Law school was over at last!


Daniel Amory


#city #contemporary-fiction #contemporary-literature #downtown #lake

I searched modern fiction and poetry for clues to how we confronted and evaded reality, how we articulated our experience and turned to language not to revel ourselves but to hide. I was as sure then as I am now that by looking at contemporary Iranian fiction I could gain access to a real understanding of political and social events. (p289)


Azar Nafisi


#how-fiction-informs-reality #purpose #experience

If you're around someone who makes you feel good, you have to go for it. Don't hold back.


Faith Sullivan


#new-adult-contemporary-romance #new-adult-fiction #new-adult-lit #new-adult-romance #faith

You know I'm always ready to indulge your fantasies.


Faith Sullivan


#new-adult-contemporary-romance #new-adult-fiction #new-adult-lit #new-adult-romance #faith

I believe there are two kinds of people in this world. The ones who do everything right, expecting the perfect outcome every time, and those who know better.


Faith Sullivan


#new-adult-contemporary-romance #new-adult-fiction #new-adult-lit #new-adult-romance #faith

Comb his Facebook page. See if he has a Twitter account. Follow up on every Google lead. I want to know what makes him tick, what makes him the man he is.


Faith Sullivan


#new-adult-contemporary-romance #new-adult-fiction #new-adult-lit #new-adult-romance #faith

This is New York, babe. Be ready to expect anything.


Faith Sullivan


#new-adult-contemporary-romance #new-adult-fiction #new-adult-lit #new-adult-romance #faith

She was an idiot. An adorable, gorgeous, feisty, funny, sweet, sexy idiot.


Sarah Mayberry


#funny #humour #romance #funny

[...] he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. "That's the only kind of book I can trust", he said. "It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short.


Haruki Murakami


#reading #life






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