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what the fuck?!!!! doing that to a vulnerable pregnant woman?! grabe tangina niyo

fucking cruel people. this makes me sick

"my parents weren't quite sure how to say it — atleast some of us had to survive, to keep the memory alive, so the family would go on, somewhere else."

so cruel grabe. imagine having that hope na kukunin na kayo ng king only to be greeted by helicopters :( the exterminators :(

"I was always relieved to hear my mother's footsteps, which meant that the fears and torments of the night would soon be at an end"

humans are so cruel wtf

powerful intro!

"One would have to strike a balance between loving people too much and judging them too hard"

"if you stripped the skin from a person what remained was anonymous machinery." wow.

home is not just where you live, it's how someone makes it livable siguro? maybe that's why bobby finds comfort in his grandma's house. everyone's less on edge kapag andito sila

"trying not to look, not to see, appalled by the ugliness of people which shadows now made scary — but they walked in public as if they were clean and happy and beautiful, believing nobody could see into their secret places, what they really were, and he felt the urge to again to tell everybody what he saw they had but couldn't stop running"

i don't know what im reading anymore

he has kids?!!!! " he sometimes thought for an instant of the children he had left in Tokyo" the f

i'm so sad :( i don't want to get old :( i wanted them to stay immortal and young forever

poor sid :( i wished they just let him do whatever he wanted to do. i get charity and her opinions but they never let him do what he wanted to do yet they crucify him for not standing up for himself.

i can really see myself in charity lol

"Friendship is the most selfish thing there is."

passion vs the system :(

aa i liked how pinakita rin nila yung nawalan bigla ng work si larry and feel na feel kita sally!!

i like this! yung parehas sila ni sid na under the weather bec of hard times na yung isa tinanggal sa trabaho while yung isa di na promote.

"if you wanted something, you planned for it, worked for it, and made it happen."

one of my all time favorite lines
— "Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. Ambition becomes a vice; it can turn a man into a machine that knows nothing but how to run. "

his pov on their friendship:

"It is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together but neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking.
It is therefore rare."

hmm i just didn't like how charity made sid drop out to pursue the grand tour sa world. cause sid clearly liked his books and academics. idk but it sounds sweet and all kaso hmm

the grass is not greener on the other side

"Why is it important to be safe?"


also yung talk nila na sabi ni larry but if i were in ur shoes tas sabi ni sid but you aren't in my shoes siguro saken may ibat iba talagang definition ang tao ng happiness nila. sid and charity might prioritize stability that's why they're able to relax a lot while larry and sally prioritizes larry's talent sa writing? kase nag drop out nga din si sally for their family

"I had lost my security, she never had any. Both of us werw peculiarly susceptible to friendship. When the Langs opened their house and their hearts yo us, we crept gratefully in."

"Let her find out how different other lives were from hers."

liking how we get to know the characters na parang part na rin tayo ng conversation

loved chapter 2! i think it's interesting to read about married couples na hindi agad all rainbows and sunshine after marriage specifically sa finance. nagustuhan ko na pinakita dito yung inevitable talaga minsan na gastos kase wala ka nang choice kundi mag settle down sa isang apartment. i guess i can kinda relate kase parang kahit may nakikita kang mali wala ka namang choice minsan