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Infinite Jest

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a captivating love story filled with suspense and mystery. When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival ra

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“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”

— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com

Tagged: Letting Go, Scars, Hardships

“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.’”

— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com

Tagged: Let Go, Unforgettable

“You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail.”

— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com

Tagged: broken, Learning, surviving

“It’s weird to feel like you miss someone you’re not even sure you know.”

— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com

Tagged: Missing Someone, Feelings, emotions

“I’m so scared of dying without ever being really seen. Can you understand?”

— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com

Tagged: Dying, Revealing Yourself, Identity

“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”

— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com

Tagged: Letting Go, Moving Forward

“My life is unmanageable and I’d like to share it with you.”

— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com

Tagged: Love and Connection, Love and Sufferings, For Better or For Worse, Confession of Love

“I am not what you see and hear.”

— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com

Tagged: strange, Ghost

“You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.”

— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Self & Identity, self awareness, self, Self Absorbed

“Sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and hurt.”

— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com

Tagged: Suffering, Hurting

“I’m so scared of dying without ever being really seen. Can you understand?”

— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com

Tagged: Death, Acknowledgment of Others

“It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.”

— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com

Tagged: Missing, Missing Someone, Feeling, Weird, weird feeling

“...it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.”

— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com

Tagged: Courage, Weak, Weakness, Irony, Opposites

“My life is unmanageable and I’d like to share it with you.”

— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com

Tagged: Relationships, Trust, Life

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”

— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com

Tagged: Truth, Honesty, self freedom

“Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of 'psst' that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.”

— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com

Tagged: Destiny, Fate, Engineer

“The familiar panic at feeling misperceived is rising, and my chest bumps and thuds. I expend energy on remaining utterly silent in my chair, empty, my eyes two great pale zeros. People have promised to get me through this.”

— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com

Tagged: what anxiety feels like, anxiety in literature, Panic, Feelings, Energy

“A good muddy juice fills Joelle’s mouth with spit that’s as good as the juice, and her linen veil is drying and beginning once again comfortingly to flutter with her breath, and, perched alone and glanced at covertly by persons who don’t know they know her voice, she feels the desire to raise the ve…”

— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com

Tagged: Sadness, lonliness, Vices, Depression

“Almost always gotten on impulse, tattoos are vividly, chillingly permanent.”

— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com

Tagged: Tattoos, Impulsive But Forever

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”

— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com

Tagged: Identity, Your Uniqueness, What Makes Us Different, Beliefs, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature