Status Updates From Another Country

Every character is somewhat annoying, in a good way though Eric and Vivalido are my favorites, Cass and Richard (more so him) are my least favorite this is my least favorite Baldwin read so far but RN it's a 4

"Do you know what I mean? Perhaps if you can accept the pain that almost kills you, you can use it, you can become better [...] Otherwise, you just get stopped with whatever it was that ruined you and you make it happen over and over again and your life has - ceased, really - because you can't move or change or love any more."

"When she had been safe and respectable, so had the world been safe and respectable; now the entire world was bitter with deceit and danger and loss; and which was the greater illusion? [...] Richard had been her protection, not only against the evil in the world, but also against the wilderness of herself. And now she would never be protected again."

Idk this is my least favorite out of all the Baldwin books I've read but it's still peak