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Part two kicked my butt, but I did enjoy it the moment the battle ocurred and the way it ended.

Also, Andrei Bolkonsky is slay as hell.

Just finished part one and all I can say is that I'm loving it. There are a lot of characters, that's for sure, but the most important ones easily stand out. And I'm living for all the drama within the Russian high society!
Moving to part two...

poor Celia

a snooze fest so far

Why is the taxi driver talking like Yoda lmaooo

POOR TED WHAT THE HELL

"The most dangerous place on earth is inside us."

"Art is coincidence, love is chaos."

Joar deserves all the love in the world 🥹

"It's an act of magnificent rebellion to do meaningless things, to waste time, to swim and drink soda and sleep late."

Amen to that

Anders' restroom scene...what the hell was that??

Cleo is such a shitty character but I feel like Frank and her deserve each other lol. She's just a tiiiny bit worse than him

Ohhh Eleanor's POV is much more interesting. The dramaaa

Zoe is annoying af and the rest of the characters are just as weird

"What is life for?" he asks himself. "What is my life for?"
Oh, he thinks, will I never forget? Is this who I am after all, after all these years?

"Life is so sad, he would think in those moments. It's so sad, and yet we all do it. We all cling to it; we all search for something to give us solace."

"You're Jude St. Francis. You are my oldest, dearest friend. You're the son of Harold Stein and Julia Altman. You're the friend of Malcolm Irvine, of Jean-Baptiste Marion, of Richard Goldfarb, of Andy Contractor, of Lucien Voigt, of Citizen van Straaten, of Rhodes Arrowsmith, of Elijah Kozma, of Phaedra de los Santos, of the Henry Youngs."

Wasn't friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?

Willem, Willem, Willem...the love and respect I have for you...

"Second, he would try--as Brother Luke had once asked him--to show a little life, a little enthusiasm."

At the front door, he tried to get rid of Willem, but Willem wouldn't leave. "I want to be alone," he told him.
"I understand," Willem said. "We'll be alone together."

x=x

f**k caleb
f**k anyone who's been part of jude's misery
f**k all the miscommunication in the book that could've been avoided

I never liked JB that much anyway

No but the ONLY thing that makes me giddy and happy is when JB is describing how successful and vicious Jude is in court, and how people notice that. Like yessss that's my smart boyyyyy

"Are you happy?" he once asked Jude (they must have been drunk).
"I don't think happiness is for me", Jude had said at last, as if Willem had been offering him a dish he didn't want to eat. "But it's for you, Willem."

"How can you help someone who won't be helped while realizing that if you don't try to help, then you're not being a friend at all?"

Willem...I hope you realize it's not your fault

"And then I went to college, and I met people who, for whatever reason, decided to be my friends, and they taught me--everything, really. They made me, and make me, into someone better than I really am."

"But it was true that for the first time, he was able to comprehend that the people he had grown to trust might someday betray him anyway, and that as disappointing as it might be, it was inevitable as well, and that life would keep propelling him steadily forward, because for everyone who might fail him in some way, there was at least one person who never would."

JB WHEN I GET YOU JB

Jude constantly apologizing for even the smallest things and thinking he doesn't deserve all the happiness in the world is a knife to my throat

"My life, he will think, my life. But he won't be able to think beyond this, and he will keep repeating the words to himself--part chant, part curse, part reassurance--as he slips into that other world that he visits when he is in such pain, that world he knows is never far from his own but that he can never remember after: My life."