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"That's why she's not here, he thought. She could not have been born gray. Her color, her color of brown, was an essential part of her, not an accident. Her anger, timidity, brashness, gentleness, all were elements of her mixed being, her mixed nature, dark and clear right through, like Baltic amber. She could not exist in the gray people's world. She had not been born."

"he had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in"

"anyway, so what if he was crazy? what sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"

all three of my siblings got me this book for Christmas so it would have felt wrong to read anything else

we're fucked and the fuckery goes so deep and is to entwined that there is no unfucking mankind

"looking at women was not really sexual for me. (...) looking at women was a way of looking at myself and, i suppose, a way of loving myself."

YOOOOOOO IM SO SMART I KNEW IT YASSSSSS im actually so excited i literally gasped i love this book

accidentally self-spoiled something. never forgiven myself. i need to leech it from my memory STAT.

sososo good so far i cant believe i let this sit on my bookshelf for years

oh... MY GOD??????

i keep on having to pause to let myself fully process (haha no pun intended) my shock and horror

give me a break.

"the desire for love is universal but that has never meant it's worthy or respect. it's not admirable to want love, it just is."

"Maybe there's something mistaken in this desire men have to instruct us; [...] in his wish to transform me was the proof that he didn't like me as I was, he wanted me to be different, or, rather, he didn't want just a woman, he wanted the woman he imagined he himself would be if he were a woman. For Franco, I said, I was an opportunity for him to expand into the feminine"

will i be able to finish this book and complete my 2024 reading goal before midnight? unlikely.

im stressed guys

jane girl get outta there