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“Everyone in America seemed to be afraid and hurting and angry, starving for a fight they could win. […] The genesis of everyone’s pain had to be external, such was their certainty. And so legislators legislated, building border walls, barring citizens of there from entering here. “The pain we feel comes from them, not ourselves,” said the banners, and people cheered, certain of all the certainty.” this.

“It’s possible, he thought, that the experience of gratitude was itself a luxury, a topless convertible driven through a rainless life.” loving it so far

i’m trying my hardest not to hate the mc but she keeps saying friggin instead of fucking and its pmo so bad. also, she has mentioned her rude boss is the one thats paying her bills like a thousand times by now. we get it.

“I became a doctor to save lives. I became a neurosurgeon because I believed it to be the highest achievement in medicine. I became a paediatric neurosurgeon to give a voice to those patients so long overlooked because of their age. To give them a life. To give them a chance. To give them respect.” oh how i missed nonfiction

“Whatever happens, I am with you. Safe in your heart. I believe it.”
reading this outside and i cant cry. im about to explode.

“Oh, fuck you. Sorry I still want to win cups instead of smoking weed with my teammates between losses.”
genuinely whats his deal

“Tengo que matarte, María. Me has dejado solo.” why are men like this

“Tra poche ore sarei uscito da quella cantina. E sarebbe stato di nuovo tutto uguale. Eppure sapevo che oltre quella porta c’era il mondo che mi aspettava e io potevo parlare con gli altri come fossi uno di loro. Decidere di fare le cose e farle.”

romanzi di formazione you’ll always have my heart

“Nel rombo papà ha detto: — Non t’ho riconosciuto. Aiutatemi, vi prego, è mio figlio. E ferito. Non l’ho… Ora era di nuovo buio.
E c’era papà.
E c’ero io.”

wow. questa è stata una storia dolorosa e cruda: il mondo degli adulti collide con quello dei bambini. la crudeltà collide con l’innocenza dell’infanzia.

primo libro in italiano 🥲 non ci credo ancora

“I love you,” Ilya said.
“I love you too.” Ilya nodded.
“Remember that when I am being a dick to you out there.”

the writing wasn’t exquisite nor were they enemies for long enough but oh well i did have fun reading this

fomo is real…

que confusão, inimaginável a dor de cabeça que a amiga dessa menina deve ter toda vez que ela começa a chorar por causa desse cara…

que cara babaca

“Cielo, mereces irte bajo tus propias condiciones. Que mordieras el polvo no significa que estés acabada.” fofos ate

“…E o senhor, por que não dançou também?
— Porque a senhora não me ordenou.
— É esta a razão? Pois vou dar-lhe um par... Quer oferecer-me seu braço? replicou Aurélia sorrindo.
— Seria ridículo oferecer-lhe o que lhe pertence. A senhora manda, e é obedecida.” O QUE

“- Prove desta lagosta. Está deliciosa; insistiu Aurélia.
- Ordena? perguntou Fernando prazenteiro, mas com uma inflexão particular na voz.
Aurélia trinou uma risada.” EU NAO TO BEM

“— Minha presença a está incomodando? Porque assim o quer. Não é, senhora? Não tem direito de mandar? Ordene, que eu me retiro.
— Oh! sim, deixe-me! exclamou Aurélia. O senhor me causa horror.
— Devia examinar o objeto que comprava, para não arrepender-se!”
uerj obrigada por me apresentar essa maravilha…

“A denial of this freedom of choice requires our behavior to be programmed to correlate with the world external to our bodies. The quantum enigma arises from our conscious perception of free will. This mystery connecting consciousness with the physical world displays physics’ encounter with consciousness.”

“For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.”
been wanting to read this for ages… this might become a new fav

“Me pregunto si será otra erecpisión.” ok but i need her to stop saying this tho….

“Pone su mano bajo mi barbilla y me levanta la cara para estudiarme mejor. Nos quedamos así durante unos interminables segundos, hasta que pregunta—: ¿Quién te ha hecho tanto daño, Elsie?”
mariana zapata might’ve messed w my sense of slow burn bc i need them to hate each other MORE

“…Sasha, ¿has oído la de la novia de Schrödinger?
Volkov se frota las manos.
—¡No, cuéntame!
—Es mi preferida. La novia de Schrödinger es a la vez bibliotecaria y físi…”

lmao im completely in denial about the fact that im cr four dif books……

“It wasn’t that he didn’t like his name—only that he had been willing to toss it in the river. He had never wanted to throw his name out, just the breath attached to it. The name, after all, was the only thing his mother gave him that he was able to keep without destroying.” it’s happening!!!!

“There is also a tendency to reinterpret what is said to make it seem reasonable. Don’t use reasonableness as a test of comprehension. But here’s one test: Niels Bohr, a founder of quantum theory, warned that unless you’re shocked by quantum mechanics, you have not understood it.” fair enough

“When I was seven, I believed everything
obeyed the laws of clocks. That if I held still
their needles, my father's fist would stop
just before my mother's perfect nose
and the song on the radio would play forever
the word—love.”
how can one write a book where every single line is just THIS perfectly placed

“Tuberculosis is so often, and in so many ways, a disease of vicious cycles: It’s an illness of poverty that worsens poverty. […] TB doesn’t just flow through the meandering river of injustice; TB broadens and deepens that river.”

“There are men who carry dreams
over mountains, the dead
on their backs.
But only our mothers
can walk with the weight
of a second beating heart.”
cannot wait till his new release i might explode before that

“You know the saddest landscapes
are the ones created by men
and abandoned by their lives,
of a city so burned,
you taste ash in the tears
moistening the edges of your lips.”
ocean vuong you’ll always be famous

“It was as if the cure did not exist— because the disease was where the cure was not, and the cure was where the disease was not.”