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to have this person's life would be fascinating

having such a great time going through these poems. darkly funny, feels like trying to fit a piece of obsidian in your mouth. the cinderella prince feeling like a shoe salesman is SO funny

eerily relatable—“But now I could do it in six weeks and all for little work and lots of adventurous fun.” Adventurous fun! that's what I'm chasing nowadays and ofc without regard for legality or danger

I tried to fool myself into thinking that smoking was actually doing something, as if the smoke rising from my mouth was evidence of a churning industry that thrived inside me. But smoking wasn’t doing any more than providing a physical activity that masked the emptiness behind it.

as good as I remember it being

"Here, at home, in warm comfort, life had no meaning. Whether you woke up at ten in the morning or at noon, whether you watched television, went for a walk in the park, or went to the theatre or attended a concert—none of it mattered; there was no point, a day was lived in vain, and one more day, and then a week."

it's been 44 ebook pages and alr things are hitting too close to home

how can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or higher form that she can appeal to, or be reconciled with, or that can forgive her. There is nothing outside her. In her imagination she has set the limits and the terms. No atonement for God, or novelists, even if they are atheists.

impossible to put down even when it was boring. waiting for robbie to get accused by briony was unbearable

The agreeable nullity of Leon’s life was a polished artifact, its ease deceptive, its limitations achieved by invisible hard work and the accidents of character

it’s been six months since I picked this book up for the first time, during winter tour. I continued reading from about 1/5 of the way through and found suddenly that my understanding and ability to relate has entirely shifted.

LMAO—Two million euros is more than two million dollars!

beginning to like it more

I want you unrepentant, without remorse, when / I hand to you the ruins of my soul.

lmfao so marcela is plagued by "nice guys"

lmao my first reaction to every encounter is always: "not again"

it’s very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become...a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.

“his pace was so slow, and the sun rose so quickly and ardently, that it would have melted his brains if he had had any”

it's taken me a long time to get here. a whole semester, in fact.

and the greatest obstacle remains: obtaining a physical copy of this book without selling my firstborn

lily's story is the most interesting out of the three, somehow

"synthetic molecules that tasted like sugar and acted like protein"

this is definitely the most interesting sentence I've come across so far. the same molecule being similar to sugar for taste receptors but functioning as a protein?? that's a cool idea.