Book Review: Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

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Book Review: Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

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I was initially not invested and didn’t enjoy the story but it grew on me. I have so many tabs of underlined and highlighted passages – damn, the quotable one-liners and passages are incredibly poignant. I’m still ambivalent with my feelings and reception to this book and I think in part because it’s hard to make all of it comprehensible. I’d have to reread this book at least another 2-3 times to get a better grasp on the details.

“Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.” 

“In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe.” 

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