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this is exactly what they’re talking about when they say they like books because they transport you to another world

so. Fucking. Good.

object permanence:
This weaving of her experiences with theft and the loss of her friend is so loaded and deep that I’ll have to keep thinking over this chapter for a while to fully grasp it’s intensity

denial:
these words of confusion and anger are gripping soo tight on my heart and mind

i’ve noticed that all the straight white women’s books on heartbreak don’t ever get good until there’s 100 pages left 🫩

I….dont think i like this

Ngl i hate that i relate to a straight British/white girl in her 30s who also got dumped

(Conversation 5)
crying when he talks about his daughter (after being asked what the face of god is to him) even more because ive seen his & Francesca’s tik toks 😭

(Conversation 3)
. I am like beside myself at how insightful his connection between violence and power and humanity and the way he talks about the making of killers of the flower moon & how much thought & deep critique of both society and the power every single person has to enact violence. Sooooo good. I’ll definitely revisit this one with a highlighter ASAP

If you don’t lead a truly Christian life, then church is not where you make up for your sins. You do it in the streets and you do it at home and if you say that you do it once a week in church and in confession, then you’re lying to yourself. Transubstantiation… has to resonate throughout the rest of the world…we ourselves have to take responsibility for making it happen through our actions.

Justice is what love looks like in public, just like tenderness is what love feels like in private. We need to take it to the streets

This is how things get transformed. Our tenacity in tenderness, then, ripens us and propels us all to live in the luminous and infinite now. Only tenderness keeps us attentive to delight.

“everything that ends is the beginning of something else, so you can decide to celebrate our impermanence”

As we asses things, we tend to ask, “what would jesus do?” But it’s perhaps more clarifying to ask “Does god agree with us?”

We dont all arrive at the same understanding at the same moment… We get “to the world” and we tend to feel that waiting is passive. It isn’t, it’s holy…we see [truths] differently along the way. Things we already knew, but now see from a different angle. Our ears are different today than they were yesterday.”

breathing air of a richer kind is suchhhh a beautiful way to talk about an experience you gave that is so sacred to the heart you cant even understand it yourself 😭

To hold the tenderness long enough, so as to not spill it en root. We all taste eternity when person merges with person. We need to find ourselves poised to enter into a relationship with anyone anywhere.

my first ugly cry of the book 😭

Love makes fear illusory, and our outpouring is other-centered and rich in joy. Our decision is firm: to search for innocence in the other.

“Overthrow any government inside that makes you weep”

“I use the word extravagant here because our tenderness needs to be generous” 😭

Oh my goooddd