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“…
how much we want to be
the exonerated creature, to be turned loose
into our own wide open without a single
harness of sin to stop us”

really loving all the horse ones- i think they have a lot of personality. “the riveter” is another favorite

“…
Don’t you want to believe it?
Don’t you want to lift my shirt and see
the huge beating genius machine
that thinks, no, it knows,
it’s going to come in first.”

Lots of good stuff but I really can’t get over the first piece (“how to triumph like a girl”). The humor?? The pacing??? If I had even a trace of the writing skills Limón exhibits here I’d consider myself a prodigy 🐎

slumped 😵😵😵

DNF gabrielle no one talks like this

if this book were to suddenly get popular again I think screwtape would be the next tumblr sexyman. like im not attracted to this but ik some of yall would be

“How much better for us if all humans died in costly nursing homes amid doctors who lie, nurses who lie, friends who lie, as we have trained them, promising life to the dying, encouraging the belief that sickness excuses every indulgence, and even, if our workers know their job, withholding all suggestion of a priest lest it should betray to the sick man his true condition!” DAMNNNN

“It’s just that they didn’t have broad name recognition, because a women barely has to die before she is forgotten.”

Just made it past the section on the 2012 Delhi gang rape and decided I’m gonna take a break for a while!!! Really powerful stuff though. I’m listening to this as an audiobook narrated by Criado-Perez herself and I just love how firm her tone of voice is. Puts me on edge in a good way lol

the cambridge professor’s “you have just as much of a right as anyone to be here” outlook was very sweet im gonna think abt that one for a while

yknoww I feel like she’s exaggerating certain things BUT that doesn’t mean I haven’t cried like 4 times now. and, like, writing a memoir must be hard, right? right

the fact that it takes shiori 200 pages to weave her net is kinda real asf idk I love the realistic fiber arts representation

“It seems only yesterday I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I would shine.
But now if I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed.”

DNF oh my god this guy is annoying

TWINK DEATH!!!

Aaaaand im getting bored uh oh

1. sean’s one “mr. bingley vs darcy is the og rei vs asuka” comment has impacted every page I’ve read so far immeasurably
2. mrs bennet purposefully getting her daughter sick so she might have a chance of getting laid lol????
3. I’ve heard people joke that all austen writes about is people going to each others houses but I didn’t know it was THIS serious oh my god. but im having fun

“for if I had first to read all that men have written about women, then all that women have written about men, the aloe that flowers once in a hundred years would flower twice before I could set pen to paper” she’s so funny

*checks book goal*
*checks calendar*
fuck