trin phillips > Recent Status Updates

wow that sure is crazy but i feel like i’ve been reading this for 5 years how am i only 11% through 😭

my girl really cannot catch a break

“The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.”

okay why is this already poetically devastating?

okay im actually starting it this time

be honest. am i cooked?

“What if I stay?” she says. “What’s the first thing you’ll do?”
There are a thousand things August could say, a thousand things she wants to do. Sleep next to her. Buy her lunch at the jerk chicken joint across the street. Brighton Beach. Prospect Park. Kiss her with the door shut.
But she says simply, “Take you home with me.”

i think im coming back from my long and prolonged slump(??)

yes i know im in the middle of about 14 books shhh let me live

wow this rivalry sure is heated (im on page 14 good god)

we're breaking the rules with this one !!

"Fake. This is fake. But god, she's a good actress."

giggling and kicking my feet (internally, obviously. it wouldn't be socially acceptable in my christian college campus.

"Imagining someone as more than human does much the same work as imagining them as less than human. Either way, the ill are treated as fundamentally other because the social order is frightened by what their frailty reveals about everyone else's."

john green spitting actual bars once again (clock it king)

continuing now that i think i'm out of my reading slump question mark

gonna dnf, this is going essentially nowhere and i'm infinitely confused