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He didn't care if they really felt that way or not: he just needed them to say it, he needed to feel that something lay beneath their imperturbable calm, that somewhere within them ran a thin stream of quick, cool water, teeming with delicate lives, minnows and grasses and tiny white flowers, all tender and easily wounded and so vulnerable you couldn't see them without aching for them.

There were times when the pressure to achieve happiness felt almost oppressive, as if happiness were something that everyone should and could attain, and that any sort of compromise in its pursuit was somehow your fault.

Poor Jude apologizing for his own pain and misery when there is nothing to be sorry about is my thirteenth reason 🫡

"We don't get the families we deserve," Willem had said once when they had been very stoned. He was, of course, speaking of Jude.

"But loving somebody isn't perfection and good times and laughing and making love. Love is forgiveness and patience and faith and every once in a while, it's a gut punch. That's why it's a dangerous thing, when you go loving the wrong person. When you love somebody who doesn't deserve it. You have to be with someone that deserves your faith and you have to be deserving of someone else's. It's sacred."

"But knowing you're good can only take you so far. At some point, you need someone else to see it, too. Appreciation from people you admire changes how you see yourself. And Billy saw me the way I wanted to be seen. There is nothing more powerful than that. I really believe that.
Everybody wants somebody to hold up the right mirror."

ohhh this is so so fun. such an easy read so far

a grumpy boomer that hates on everything and anything - people's obsession with social media, buying a takeout latte but still staying in, paying with a watch...wonder where this one will go lol

Little Linton is a little wretch, for sure

"Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being - so don't talk of our separation again - it is impracticable"

Joseph's dialogs make my head hurt

Makes me think of the writer as an overly horny man writing out his fantasies in a depressing (and a bit creepy) way, and I still don't give a single f about any of these characters. Toru is so damn bland, I have no idea how he keeps getting laid

This is such a snooze fest

The comfort I feel when reading HP for the nth time is just unmatched

'tis the season ⚡

IZZY FOR PRESIDENT

Mrs. Richardson is driving me nutssss istg

Me when all the foreshadowing started making sense:

I honestly have no idea whose side I'm on

Everyone could take a chill pill

Been trying to finish this... So far, not liking it one bit 😔

first agatha christie book, liking it so far

ngl i was mad i had to pause intermezzo for this, but i'm liking it so farrr

humans can be so beautiful

Not me always struggling to finish Peter's chapters so I can read Ivan's in peace

If Ivan has only one fan then that fan is me

sta je s ovom autoricom i njenom opsesijom o menstruaciji 🫥

I've been trying to keep reading and see where this is going...but it seems like it isn't going anywhere so far

Richard seems to be clinically insane and I find it so silly and unrealistic that college seniors converse quoting Shakespeare while partying...while drunk...lol