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this is so depressing 😭

also. Very Funny that we have accumulated THREE enemies plotting on our downfall, and we aren't even 30 pages into the book 😭 they hate to see an earnest and honest man just tryna live!

what's fascinating to me is one of the first events in this book is dantès feigning that the money he gives his father (that caderousse sees on the kitchen table) is not his; idk something about the ownership of fortune, something something

once again. Do You Know How Horrendous your war crimes have to be for fucking NAZIS to be the good guys 😭😭

God.

the japanese dropping a city's population from 350,000 to below 500 … what the fuck.

do you know how deplorable your inhumane torture has to be for the nazi's stationed in your city to be horrified.

this book is so fucking cute i can't

'does it feel like agony for you too?' 'not anymore' THROWING UPPPP

i can't read this book without just imagining the scenes from the show 😭 willyoucometothecottagethissummer 😭

stood up and cheered when jean valjean was introduced. THE character!!!!!!

YOU GAVE YOUR GAME TO KEVIN. GIVE YOUR BACK TO ME.

how the slightest physical touch will wake andrew bc of drake :(

the first thing neil does after waking up disorientated in a strange place is call for his mom 💔 what if i end it all

i looooove columbia. it's right at this part that the book truly picks up. so disorientating and fucked up and <3

'the last thing neil wanted was for andrew to stab someone in the middle of a game. the foxes would be banned from the league in an instant' AND THE FACT THAT IT WOULD BE MURDER DOESNT EVEN CROSS HIS MIND WKSJSKDKWD NEIL IS A TOP TIER NARRATOR

neil comes back from the first dinner with twinyards/nicky/kevin/wymack/abby and immediately goes for a run. literally says to run past all of his thoughts. his first 'family' experience and he tries to mentally escape. this boy who's been on the run his whole life. who's died again and again and denied belonging his entire adolescence. who now just stuffed his gifted set of keys into his pockets so he can return.

neil has such a hardon for exy it makes him look stupid. wdym 'the risks didn't matter' brother your dad is gonna track you down and KILL you 😭

"keys meant he belonged" and the first thing wymack does is give him a set of keys. neil is at home. oh man oh man

'(neil) tapped two fingers to his temple, copying andrew's mocking salute from their first meeting. "better luck next time" "oh" andrew said "oh, you might actually turn out to be interesting. for a little while, at least. i don't think the amusement will last. it never does."' HI IM CRAZY ABOUT THEM

andriels first meeting … andrew slamming his racket into neil as neil is trying to escape … physically stopping neil from running from his past … his whole Purpose being showcased in that first introduction … sensational

"neil josten let his cigarette burn to the filter without taking a drag" first of all, absolute baller of a character introduction, but doesn't that just set neil up perfectly? his inaction? letting the cigarette burn; wasting away? much like himself (before the foxes force him to stop)?

fixing my crisis by returning to a much-wanted reread. i missed my good friend neil josten <3

guys, i'm trying to read this book. i really am. but it's a week into the new year and i STILL haven't made much progress and space sci fi just … is not my thing i think. please help. i'll watch the movie! but i just Don't think i can do the book im sorry i know people love it

(about the priest) "he was a simple soul who loved, and that was all"

and isn't that what this whole book is about? isn't that the thesis of this 1000+ page Brick of redemption and forgiveness and rebellion? love?

actually started this last night oops

actually loving it so far but it's odd cause i believe hannah bonam young is canadian but why is she calling shoes SNEAKERS??? we call them runners 💀

i don't think i can ever read this book again. i genuinely feel like it is disembowling me with every page. fuck.

reread via audiobook after i watched the new movie, and wow this guys narration is 🤤

the dedication being "once again, for zelda" when f scott STOLE most of her work is FOUL

honestly, huge shoutout and love to those who took on the burden of cutting up the meat. while reading these books has de-tabooed cannibalism for me, it still would be such a psychologically damaging task, and incredible respect to those who did it