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“He looked at her face in the mirror and was reminded of days at sea when water looked like sky. She surveyed his body and thought of oranges, playing jacks, and casks of green wine. He was still life, babies, cut glass, indigo, hand spears, dew, cadmium yellow, Hansa red, moss green and the recollection of a tree that wanted to dance with her."

oh my GOD chapters 7 and 8 were GORGEOUS!! completely breathtaking!!!

i am so confused i don’t know who anyone is 🥀

Definitely a writing style im not used to and i sometimes have to re-read to fully grasp it but overall im devouring this book

I'm getting tired of the book tbh

“It was a silly age, twenty-five; too old for teenaged dreaming, too young for settling down. Every corner was a possibility and a dead end. Work? At what? Marriage? Work and marriage? Where? Who?”

philly AND philippines mentioned. fuck this book is good

Update coming soon im too tired to give an actual one

“The chocolate man would be the cause of that. She could think of nothing else—hurricane wind, or magic doll, diamondback or monkey teeth—that would quiet those curved and clanging knives. Only the man who ate chocolate in the night and lived like a foraging animal and who was as silent as a star could have done it.”

Boy is this a hard book to read. As I've gotten further in I've started understanding it more. I wanted a sophisticated book and I found just that, I suppose. It goes by slow for me because I have to take a moment to re-read and really understand what is happening.