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Reading for the 18th time
read in April 2017
Michelle said:
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Update 2022: These books are like catnip to me. This entire series is batshit crazy, fucks severely, and almost certainly forever altered my brain chemistry in my formative teenage years.*my quite subjective review for the entire series*
I think we al ...more "
“Because everyone knows yellow pain, pressed into American letters, turns into gold. Our sorrow Midas touched. Napalm with a rainbow afterglow. Unlike feelings, blood gets realer when you feel it. I'm trying to be real but it costs too much.”
― Time Is a Mother
― Time Is a Mother
“Then it came to me, my life. I remembered my life
the way an ax handle, mid-swing, remembers the tree.
& I was free.”
― Time Is a Mother
the way an ax handle, mid-swing, remembers the tree.
& I was free.”
― Time Is a Mother
“That was the cruelest irony: the more you did to save yourself, the less you became a person worth saving.”
― A Study in Drowning
― A Study in Drowning
“Slighted things needed you to witness the wound you gave them.”
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“In my language, the one I recall now only by closing my
eyes, the word for love is Yêu.
And the word for weakness is Yếu.
How you say what you mean changes what you say.
Some call this prayer, I call it watch your mouth.”
― Time Is a Mother
eyes, the word for love is Yêu.
And the word for weakness is Yếu.
How you say what you mean changes what you say.
Some call this prayer, I call it watch your mouth.”
― Time Is a Mother
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