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Something about the straightforwardness and simplicity but at the same time the sheer brilliance of Higashino's writing grips me and makes this sonmuch enjoyable.

"Hermocrates says we should be thankful for our red wind. That it shows Syacuse's prosperity, it's growth, but Hermocrates is a cunt, and I remain sceptical."
Lampo is a beast lol. one of the funniest character I've come across.

Since his son’s death, Biton has become a devotee of Dionysus, but being skint, he gets to worship rarely.
xD

"Untill I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

Scout is probably my favourite literary character.

"We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew."

"it's the little things. Little treasures we find without knowing their origin. And they come when we least expect them. It's beautiful, when you think about it."

"But how Barbara is reacting to me being sick is exactly what she'd want others to do for her. Agnès, the same. In these situations people give out what they would like to receive."

Holy. Fuck.

I'm going to be ruined 🥲

"She understood that Monet had been a man in love. He too had felt light pass through his skin, into his bones, seen the glow that sat inside everything. He understood the hunger for present moment, and in his work here held those transitioins still, or almost still, quivering between light and dark, true night and true day, the crossing of a threshold, pinned in place."

Happy Pride <3

"Find the strength to do both."

An apple a day keeps the civilization away? Damn the apples in myths

“All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.”

I don't remember Never Let Me Go being THIS good.

Damn sleep... Coming between me and finishing the book in one sitting.

“We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.”
I am loving this equally the second time around. This book shows how you don't need complex backstories to make complex characters.

when it comes to the past, we all stack the deck

Settling in with Cal and Trey and Lena.

Andy Serkis my GOAT

Here we go

Soooo many paths leading to the finish line

Let's GOOOOOOOO!!! Patreon benefits, baby!

Carl meeting the previous owners is probably in my top 10 book scenes ever.