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“‘She was spending her time on teaching the poors. How many of you are doing that in your own life?’ she demands ‘Who are you all to judge her?’” i would die for lovely

“Pt Sir has sent a dozen men to jail, does anybody know that? So this street dog better beware of him, or he can have it locked up in a snap of his fingers, ha-ha!” jivan you’re in DANGER

having the scene with the mom right after the scene with ragini was like being sh0t 37 times

“A spouse always has ideas about how you should spend your time. Couldn’t he have enjoyed thirty minutes to himself, to drink a cup of tea and sit on the platform?” man your wife asked you to get tomatoes i don’t think it’s that deep

ANOTHER patching each other up after a fight?? cat sebastian you are spoiling us

“the person i lose it all for? that’s how you see yourself? isn’t it? you’re not going to ruin my life. you’re the person i want to build my life around.” what are they putting in the water in nebraska to make this man so sweet and heartfelt

“now be quiet so i can watch the yankees lose” ok david corenswet is back in

“it just means that thinking about awful things is a little hobby you have. me too. shitty hobby.” nick you have been officially been uncast as david corenswet for saying things like that

it feels appropriate to point out to my vast and captivated audience that for the duration of these books i have been picturing nick as david corenswet and mark as jonathan bailey (specifically as tim from fellow travelers). working on eddie and andy’s castings though

“the vista of sartorial possibility has never been so broad” needs to be in an ad campaign somewhere

“you asked why i went back to beat reporting. i told you it keeps me young. the truth is that the older you get, the more things you lose, and baseball is something i have left.” …oh my god i am going to cry over this fictional 80 year old man

“Mark hates everyone except Lula, the best dog in the world, and the cab driver, the hero who will bring him home.” and he’s so real for that

this man has the self preservation instincts of a toddler near a hot stove i actually can’t believe he hasn’t died yet

“‘it’s well known that only homosexuals smile,’ eddie agrees. mark sighs in despair.” this man is trying to shave YEARS off mark’s life

“he can imagine how clear it must have been to william that, after being thrown away, mark needed tangible proof of his value” I AM GONNA LOSE IT THIS IS SO PRECIOUS AND SAD

“he packs the minimum he’ll need for a week: two suits that don’t wrinkle too badly, six shirts, a handful of sweaters, a sport coat, five ties, underwear.” this man would THRIVE in a j crew dressing room

“he feels a surprising loyalty not to the robins, but to their fans, to the people who open the paper every morning hoping to read some good news about their ill-fated team; he feels like they and he are in this together.” omg it’s giving lastros core

FINALLY

“i don’t think i could have a single feeling about you that’s wasted” cat sebastian what are they feeding you how do you come up with this stuff

“Right now he wants to be surrounded by the memories of the life he used to have, evidence that he once was loved.” bro i can’t be reading this on my lunch break im gonna be weepy on teams calls

“this urge to be kind to a relative stranger is unfamiliar and disconcerting, as if he’s discovered in himself a hunger for raw meat or an enthusiasm for vaudeville” i hate when men are funny

“the usual, ma’am?” the bartender asks while holding up another cat sebastian book i will tear through in a day

“I want more than we can have but I want it anyway” NOBODY TALK TO ME

me, sighing profoundly at michael: fine let’s go give him a medal. the not-as-much-of-a-jerk-as-you-could-have-been award (someone please get this)

“Maybe what he needs is to make peace with a life of waking up alone and learn for that to be enough.” NOT cool

“The room had always been meant for Sal.” i WILL start crying

SAL MY BELOVED <3333

“They’re all photographs of Nick.” my stomach just dropped out of my ass

FOUND FAMILY TROPE NOBODY MOVE

ex fiancée giving you the shovel talk is so funny to me