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i miss the version of me that could actually finish a book 😔

i 😫 want 😫him 😫

it is so #mecore to get out of this godforsaken slump only days before i start working 😐

OH????

falling in love with reading all over again i thought this day would never come 🥹🥹🥹

😐😑

finally making progress and it feels so good !!!

trying SO hard to read more than one page a day but then he pees in her hand and she says it smells like cereal i am done reading probably forever goodbye it was fun while it lasted

side eyeee wtf i feel so bad for him :(

*scratches head* …….

“you’re sensitive, and maybe that means you feel pain and fear and humiliation more sharply, but you also feel joy more beautifully and completely than anyone i know.”

if someone said this to me i would fold immediately

when he wants u so bad he has to leave the country to maintain his sanity 😫😫😫

“because i don’t want a quiet life, i want a brilliant one.”

💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

why is she so concerned someone’s gonna find out she’s not jessica… like be so fr how would you even prove that shit 😭

i fear this is… not that great. sooo many mediocre books lately time to go back to translated work 😔

“it’s what my body runs on: food, water, air, and that ceaseless, propulsive desire for greatness.”

oh so shes me!!!!!!

the cover is her self portrait AW jenna baby we <3 you

“monotony, especially the unfamiliar monotony of being loved, was something she couldn’t seem to get comfortable with.”

oh look a mirror how lovely

“i don’t know how other people do it, not stay with the girl whose ankle socks made your stomach flip at age fourteen, whose wet hair smells like your past—the girl who was with you the very moment you were introduced to happiness.”

🙁

“and while she didn’t make continual conversation, she made just enough to keep someone from picking up their novel.”

this was my mother the other day and it drove me insane. let a girl read, please 🙄

i have soooooo many thoughts but how to put into words 🙁

oh my heart breaks for lila :(( undoubtedly one of the most fascinating characters i’ve ever read about

“there are no gestures, words, or sighs that do not contain the sum of all the crimes that human beings have committed and commit.”

i mean. the writing is just. it’s just. like it’s so—
what a privilege, to be able to read this.

new fav????? 😩

i love this sosososo much. 🥹

i actually really really like this. they have a very interesting dynamic im curious to see how it changes

this is maybe some of the weirdest shit i have ever read idk what’s going on 😭

she fr spent 85% of this book asking him to give her a chance and every time he refused 😐 girl STAND UP. if they get together and he doesnt grovel??? i am going to riot 🤗

“i told you that i loved you, and you said… you said that it would pass.”

close enough, welcome back fleabag!

“i love you.”
“no.”
“i love you. and you are my best friend”
“no.”

????????? just stab me it would hurt less????? what the fuck 😭