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very colonial

“In the dark she said happily: its raining, I love that we’re together, I’m not sleepy, please lets talk all night. But Angela shushed her, said that she, on the other hand, was sleepy, and after a few laughs there was only the sound of the rain against the windows” (95)

“I looked for a few seconds at her face, without makeup, then stared at the floor. Vittoria seemed to me to have a beauty so unbearable that to consider her ugly became a necessity”

im nearing my author completion with Elena Ferrante and!!! this woman is a lesbian!!! i know it! so much more is clicking with Lila and Lenu in the neapolitan novel series…

call me a crazy darn feminist but the attack on mrs joe reaaaalllllyyyyyy reminds me of the ‘lobotomized woman’ trope

accustomed to ye old english I am becoming

"pause of you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day"

ch 9

“be it or be it son’t, you must be a common scholar afore you can be an uncommon one, i should hope! the king upon his throne, with his crown upon his ed, cant sit and write his acts of Parliament in print without having begun, when he were an unprompted prince, with the alphabet - Ah!”

“the essence of life is that its challenging. sometimes sweet, sometimes bitter… from an awakened perspective, trying to tie up all the loose ends and get it together is death, because it involves rejecting a lot of our basic experience. to be fully alive, fully human, is to be continually thrown out of the nest. running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life”

ch 11