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Author: Anne

  • Quotation Monday #154: Being alone

    I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone.

    What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

  • Quotation Monday #153: Librarians

    “I’m a librarian,” she blurted out, unable to take the sexual tension entangled with the biting edge of male fury. “Everyone knows we’re repressed old ladies with too many cats.”

    Rock Addiction: Volume 1 (Rock Kiss)
    by Nalini Singh

  • Quotation Monday #152: Reading

    Well, he read in the strangest way. I mean, I could never read unless I’d have a rainy afternoon or a long evening in bed, or something. He’d read walking, he’d read at the table, at meals, he’d read after dinner, he’d read in the bathtub, he’d read—prop open a book on his desk—on his bureau—while he was doing his tie. You know, he’d just read in little, he’d open some book I’d be reading, you know, just devour it. He really read all the times you don’t think you have time to read.

    – Jacqueline Kennedy.

    Jacqueline Kennedy : Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy

  • I bought an apartment

    and am currently waiting to see if my loan application go through. Signed the contract on the house yesterday.

    The bank gave me a pre-approval for a sum before I went hunting, and I am actually applying for less loan than I was pre-approved for. So, theoretically, I should be ok. Still a jittery process. Waiting. Waiting.
    I move in June. 

    I started packing. I have packed a (large) box of dvds and three (smaller) boxes of books. I am almost unable to see that on the shelves. May is going to be a long month.

  • Childhood memories: Ragdolly Anna intro

  • Quotation Monday #151: Chances

    “I’d like to have the chance to decide what my life will be like, I think that’s the best present anyone can get. The chance to decide what your life will be like.”

    – The List of my desires by Gregoire Delacourt

  • Pictures from March

    In March I took the train through Denmark to Berlin and back. 

    I also left my job, and started a new one in April.   
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
     

  • Quotation Monday #150: Dinner

    “I found that if I was eating well, there was a good chance that I was living well, too. I found that when I prioritized dinner, a lot of other things seemed to fall into place.”

    – Dinner: A Love Story: It all begins at the family table
    by Jenny Rosenstrach

  • Quotation Monday #149 – No normal

    “There is boring. There is sensational. There is mediocre. There is lazy. There is good. There is evil. People do implausible things all the time, and they run the gamut of moderately weird to truly extraordinary. But there is no normal. The world is an unbelievable place full of unbelievable people doing unbelievable things.”

    ― Penny Reid, Love Hacked