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“She was the more interesting one. (Pg..2 something)”
Sums up my feelings ENTIRELY.
Took a big break from this one after reading the first half because Lancelot was so aggravating. Then picked it up again to read Matilde’s perspective and it’s incredible!!! Lauren Groff is really a genius.

The word wife comes from the Proto – Indo – European Welp. Welp means to turn, twist, or warp. In an alternative etymology, the word wife comes from Proto – etc.
Ghwibh means pudenda. Or shame.

Grief is pain internalized, abscess of the soul. Anger is pain as energy, sudden explosion.

Pregnant ladies, the original Trojan horses

The Noble Field, the same strong feelings as the rest of us; the difference is how they choose to act.
Somehow, despite your politics and smarts, she had become a wife, and wives, as we all know, are invisible. The midnight elves of marriage.

If Lotto had been paying attention to Natalie, he would’ve understood that there would be talk later, the old friend network sparked by what she say she’d seen between the two men was a scribble disappearing on the dark path, then the blank page of snow.

Hot milk of a world, with its skin of morning fog in the window. Lunch on the porch, and a plated basket, vegetable soup and focaccia and good cheddar and celery and carrot sticks and an apple and cookie.

Already the heat she felt for her husband was half diverted into her son.
A relief to find her own beauty there. Her husband‘s family were not a lovely people descendants of every kind. Oneiroi makes me laugh. Erasmus was the man who said in the land of the blind. The one I’d man is King.

So glad I went in without knowing anything about this book. What a ride