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wow this is slow. I feel like it’d be a much better movie

annabeth breaking the rules to sit next to him, holding his hand, hugging him, KISSING him …and he is not clocking anything. pray for my sister

I love literature & I love books & I love reading & I love love

“I’d always wanted to shoot a gun, but I changed my mind as soon as the skeleton pointed his gun at me.”

he is a widower

-you haven’t lived long enough to have done anything.
—I’ve lived long enough to suffer.

BARS

“Misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect.”

it’s not rushing it’s dragging…

I’ve been told this was considered “recreational” reading for its time so it’s like Colleen Hoover for French people in 1846. let’s see what he’s cooking…

“Who did this to you?” this classic… is he gonna beat up her step mom or

is the author a sociopath? it’s like she’s never experienced human emotion

“There are few things more devastating than to have it burned into you that you do not count and that no provisions are made for the literal protection of your person.”

“Always the white minister used as his text something from Paul.” Get his ass

this should be more entertaining than it is. they’re reheating percabeth’s nachos & it’s falling flat 😦

whyyy is this book so long for seemingly no reason??

“…the eras are not defined by stations of life stereotypically associated with womanhood, such as maiden, wife, mother etc. Instead, they are defined by artistic achievement. Thus, the eras do not unfold in chronological order, but rather in the order Swift wants them to appear in for the purposes of the show. This is the takeaway for her fans: the story of your life is literally what your art makes of it.”

“When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back,” Plath allegedly told a friend during her brutalizing break-up with Ted Hughes. “It’s gone forever.”

toe-sucking mentioned in first few pages. wow

“The best year had come when I was 20.” WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT TO ME

Christianity became “a religion of the powerful and dominant, used sometimes as an instrument of oppression, but it must not tempt us into believing that it was thus in the mind and life of Jesus.”

idk how she is so optimistic. this is all deeply depressing