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“Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing; but before you realize it’s magical power, it’s gotten under your skin, become part of you and your destiny.”

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and, if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the Universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”

I would never shut up if someone talked about me in that way, pls when is it my turn 😢😢

Finally got a billy bookshelf yassss

“And he slowly began to walk, away from the saints and the voices of the children, his hands in his pockets, struggling to ignore the question which now screamed and screamed in his minds bright haunted house.”

Sometimes when I’m reading Baldwin I just have to pause and recollect myself because his writing is just everything to me 🥲

I got so addicted to playing sims for like a week straight that I did nothing else in my free time but I’m so back now

Almost done😫

This is taking me so long to get through I fear I won’t finish it before the years end…

“You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you’re trying to decide what to do”

There’s nothing wrong with reading erotica but why is that one of the categories listed on my account when I literally never read that☹️☹️

“Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love — where are you? Where are you?” (48)

Chap. 19 was just really poorly done lol! The message got across and was understood but, as a quintessential turning point for one of the character was revealed, it was done extremely sloppily.

Murakami could have been airing his grievances for Japanese feminism, which is fine that his creative liberty but I just felt the way in which he executed it was lined with misogyny. A shame since the story is so captivating

UNGA 181, “The resolution was another declaration of war, providing the international birth certificate for a Jewish state in most of what was still an Arab-majority land, a blatant violation of the principle of self-determination enshrined in the UN Charter” (71)

This resolution led to the 1948 Nakba which displaced at least 720,000 Palestinians, roughly 80% of the total native population at the time.

Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, an article in which every other Middle Eastern country was granted (at least some) independence to the populations.

This same article was modified (by the British) for Palestine to not include the native Arab population, in fact it did not even utter the words “Arab” or “Palestinian” at all.There was a complete ignorance for the native culture and people.

I’m reading astronomically slow these days I feel like a fraud