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THIS is the book all yall been reading??? wtf??? i don’t know if i’ll be able to finish this because genuinely what the actual fck

*spoilers?*
“but i have no regrets, because i know now that she wasn’t crazy. i’m not sure anyone is. i think it’s just easier to call someone crazy than it is to admit that they could be right. easier to call someone crazy than to confront the nuance of their circumstance, than to accept the callous cruelty that exists in the world we live in, the evil out there that revels in our suffering”

dnf at 53%
yeah i don’t know or care what’s happening anymore

i’m starting to get bored but this premise is so me :(

“after more than three decades on this planet, all it took was a few weeks and the right person to entirely rearrange my composition”

“just because something doesn’t make money or win awards doesn’t mean it doesn’t have value. or doesn’t deserve to exist. the job is alchemy. …but bringing something intangible into the world that can live on without you. something bigger than the person who made it.”

“but to allow herself to loved? that was so much harder. that required bravery and trust and the vanquishing of the monsters that lived under the bed.”

“because every day we spent together, this peculiar feeling was growing in me: you are like me”

“i missed feeling that deep curiosity about people, that spark of excitement when you realized you had something in common or admiration when you uncovered a hidden talent or quality”

“i wonder how much of a woman’s life is spent this way. enduring. waiting for enjoyment or, fuck it, death.”

“i never realized how much bullshit is bound to the bottom of your hair. how it carries with it the years and experiences, all it has witnessed, has endured. the reason you can’t let go of your past is that it’s still attached. that weight on your shoulders, the strain on your back and neck. it’s your dead ends.”

“i’m not scared of poltergeists or vampires or freddy krueger. i’m scared of real things, like economic recessions and dying alone”

“she made me remember why i loved to read. i’d heard of books doing that, but i always figured it was metaphorical, a nice sentiment. i never thought it actually happened.”

“you aren’t what i pictured’” i say. “you are so, so, so much better than what my cynical little brain could’ve ever come up with.”

“he was already discovering that love tasted better with a little cheese”

DNF

should shakespeare retellings/modernizations or any other older stories (not necessarily fairytales) be put under my retelling shelf?

i can’t do it y’all.

i don’t know if i can do this y’all. i can’t get over the whole “please sleep with me” bit

listen, i wanted spooky. i know i had just read this but i wanted the chilling horror that only ghosty tingles and monstrous humans could satisfy.

i dunno if i can actually read this.
these people need some goddam therapy. this is freaking me out too much

✨ “‘i like you,’ i say. ‘i lustful-sun like you, i meteorite like you, you are the fucking pink starburst to me.’”(pg.302)

✨“maybe there’s a kind of friend love that opens you up... maybe you didn’t have a place for it within you before, but once it finds you out, crawls inside, and makes space for itself, you can’t live without it ever again.”(pg.295)

✨ “‘why don’t you just tell them that you love them?’ ‘sorry?’ ‘that’s why you’re doing all this, right? because you love them? i mean...you do, don’t you?’ i don’t speak, but frank knows.”(pg.281)

✨“‘i thought bigger was better.’ ‘i was like the worlds smallest dick to you.’ he shakes his head. ‘i was a smaller dick. a micropenis.’”(pg.261)

✨“‘the majority of fics have happy endings. ...something of that supposed quality doesn’t hold a candle to the feeling you get in your chest; you feel something settle in you. that’s worth a thousand tragedies to me.’”(pg.253)

✨“people in books and movies are always conveniently blacking out. i take real issue with nancy drew books, because nancy sustained more head injuries than all of the nfl combined, and she never once went for a ct scan.”(pg.248)

✨“i turn my cruel light their way, the fucking eye of sauron, scorching everything in its path.”(pg.246)

✨”‘nothing,’ he says, and the twin stares call bullshit right back at us. it’s almost impressive, their coordination.”(pg.242)