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“Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.”

“In this light all narrative was sentimental. In this light all connections were equally meaningful, and equally senseless.”

“During the years when I found it necessary to revise the circuitry of my mind I discovered that I was no longer interested in whether the woman on the ledge outside the window on the sixteenth floor jumped or did not jump, or in why. I was interested only in the picture of her in my mind: her hair incandescent in the flood-lights, her bare toes curled inward on the stone ledge.”

Does the author not know that CTE can’t be diagnosed until after you die…

Kr*v m*ga mention 👎 BOOOOO 🍅🍅🧱🍅

Scotland mention 🔥🔥🔥

“What, after all, is more human than suffering?”

Scotland mention x2 🔥🙏🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Scotland mention 🙏🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg mention 🔥🔥🔥

“Trees sinking their trunks into the sand, the small reconstructed trench, the phrase inscribed on the concrete building, the military camp on the other side of the road.”

“I keep listening, my ears trained to the sound of repeated bombings, and I feel a strange closeness with Gaza, as well as a desire to hear the shelling from nearby, and to touch motes of dust from the buildings being bombed. The absence of dust brings an awareness of how profoundly far I am from anything familiar, and how impossible it will be to return.”

“And he begins speaking in a voice so calm and clear, so untouched by stuttering, stammering or rambling, that it feels as if he is smoothly unravelling a delicate thread, one which cannot easily be cut.”

“sometimes it’s inevitable for the past to be forgotten, especially if the present is no less horrific”

He’s 17 and she’s 15 😭😭😭😭 I’m sorry but this writer is a very very very strange woman she actually might need to go to jail

Official “I released a breath I didn’t know I was holding” Count: 1

Did not realise this series was Irish so that’s nice.
Worried about the amount of ‘I’m so small and tiny and short 🥺’ mentions this has already :(

“You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and you're trying not to tell him that you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you've discovered something you don't even have a name for.”

“In the dream I don’t tell anyone, you put your head in my lap.”

“Lying on the sofa with my eyes closed, I didn't want to see it this way,
everything eating everything in the end.”