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it's still dense but warming up (fall 1968)

it is dense but good

i don’t know why i finished this

I know this is silly but I’m reading it and should get credit

i can’t believe i’m 2/3 in and nothing has happened yet

this book neeeeeeds a trigger warning

“The whole sky makes sense to me now,” Vanessa said. “Because of you.”

“Can you be a good person and work somewhere where something like this happens?”

"Men could smell it on me, that I had lost my body, that they could avail themselves of my body, that I wouldn't say no because I knew my no did not matter. They smelled it on me and took advantage, every chance they got."

"It never crossed my mind to say no. This was the price I had to pay, I told myself, to be loved by him or, if I was honest with myself, to be tolerated by him. A girl like me, pliable and sheltered and unworthy and desperately craving his attention, did not dare hope for anything more. I knew that...
And I finally did say no. And it did not matter. That's what scarred me the most. My no did not matter."

author extremely unfamiliar with the concept of “show don’t tell”

“Eventually remembering turned into imagining. How slight the difference was between the two.”