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2023 reread 🌸

It’s been a while…

Here we go…

I feel like trying to pull yourself out of a reading slump by reading classics isn’t the best thing to do but nevertheless..

close to DNFing I can’t lie..

“He wasn’t just unconventionally handsome, she realized.
He was uncommonly beautiful.
“What did you learn?” he asked neutrally.
That I could study you for a lifetime, carrying all of your peculiarities and discretions in the webs of my spidery palms, and still feel empty-handed.”

The only good romance books are ones that focus on developing the protagonists as individuals instead of creating unlikeable, generic characters and hoping whatever popular tropes they’re thrown into do most of the work

“She hated all scenarios preceding the assumption that someone could predict her taste. Either they thought it universal enough that she could be lumped in with masses or they thought (usually incorrectly) that they understood her specific needs, and she wasn’t sure which crime was worse.”

“Regan always felt most secure in the hands of a man with no misconceptions of her flaws, because for better or worse, he would not be swayed by the possibility of their resurgence.”

was it James…

when does it get good

“The only thing we know is that tomorrow will be no better than today, and that we are waiting on the banks, yearning, for a boat that will not come. We are sentenced to be separated from everything— except from our own destruction”

“Yet, imperialism does not fall asleep while the Third World develops”

(Rereading)

Let the voice within your voice speak to the ear of his ear;
For his soul will keep the truth of your heart as the taste of the wine is remembered.
When the colour is forgotten and the vessel is no more

genuinely struggling to read this, every sentence is so painful

Does anyone else get into reading slumps after reading a really good book? Like you enjoyed it so much and now you’re basking in this love for reading so much so that you don’t want to read another book too soon that could potentially ruin it?

idk why but i imagine duncan as hagrid… makes the scenes with intimacy desperately uncomfortable 😵‍💫

The writing is so beautiful

I’m so nervous I have to take a 2 minute break after reading each page >_<

OH MY GOD????

the unfriendly tortured soul with a lot secrets showing the mildest amount of affection… and i fall for it every time

I think it’s starting to get interesting…

when does it get good

“He said I had genius-level emotional intelligence … that he could talk to me, confide in me // No one had ever understood that dark part of him until I came along”

If we haven’t all heard this before 🥴

genuinely so bored… I’d have given up on this book already if I hadn’t known there’s a twist at the end

sipping bourbon everyday… BE A LADY.