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“If David and Bruce were asked whether they were happy, both would have replied yes, they were, although there might have been a moment’s hesitation... If you have to hesitate for only a moment in considering that question, then you are probably happy enough, which is as much as most of us can expect.”

“In the lives of most of us, the list of things unsaid was, he thought, a long one.”

lowkey depressing as hell. how do we fix something thats so broken?

ooooo! coo coo! guess what i am (a goldfinch)

most annoying man of the year award

ill be soooo fr, at the risk of sounding unfeeling, this guy sounds like a PIA

love his pigeon though

WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD

i need to stop reading books that make me sob I THOUGHT THIS WAS A HAPPY STORY

plot so good it makes the bad prose bearable

can we talk about how she describes penises as “cylindrical chambers of blood sponges” ? no? ok fine.

“His mistake had been in thinking the world would be filled with Sadie Greens, people like her. It was not… To find someone who you wanted to talk to for 609 hours—that was rare.”

perfectly cute so far, albeit the characters are kinda annoying. maybe too nerdy, even for me?

“I realized that the answer to the question made no difference. It had happened. It was the new fact on the ground.”

this poor woman….

“I remember thinking that I needed to discuss this with John. There was nothing I did not discuss with John.”

ok maybe not the best time to read a book about joan grieving the loss of her husband cuz why am i sobbing so heavily throughout this whole thing…. i need to lock in on the cardiovascular system

almost done eeeek! not ready to give up my italian childhood! need to buy the next book in the series expeditiously

merry xmas

im a whore for period pieces and mass hysteria. liking it so far!

ok random marriage proposal

the gag that is being famous for being an asymptomatic chronic carrier of salmonella typhi

bukowski reincarnated

kinda shocked at the negative review bombings? just because the narrator is a POS doesnt mean its a bad book

oh BROTHER! one toxic relationship for another!

“your mother was a wicked slut!”

wait no like im gagged. imagine married your estranged ex-step-sister’s husband’s sister out of spite, monologuing about how much you love your ex step sister, and then how much you hate your current wife, all while infront of said wife

heathcliff you dirty dog i dont like you as much anymore