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“But not everyone has dreams. Some people just
are, the way that trees and rocks and rivers are just there without a reason, the rest of the world moving around them.”

"Before considering a curb on violence undertaken by a group of people in a continuous state of despair and provocation, we should tackle the causes of this despair and put an end to provocation."

Orbit 4 and orbit 7, wow

This is due back at the library tomorrow, so I’m going to have to go back on the holds list

Katherine you’ve lost me and it will be a miracle if you manage to bring me back

"The unfortunate precedent was thus created of sacrificing the interests of the Jewish masses in Europe for the sake of Zionist political ambitions."

"There was nothing paradoxical in this, although they could not have
expressed the reason for it(...): that the land they farmed and the substance they produced from it belonged neither to them who worked it nor to those who forced them at guns' point to do so, that as far as either(...) were concerned, it could have been pebbles they put into the ground and papier-mache cotton- and corn-sprouts which they thinned."

"How is it that she remains invisible? I scanned through the electronic text of the book. Orwell mentions 'my wife' thirty-seven times. And then I see: not once is Eileen named. No character can come to life without a name. But from a wife, which is a job description, it can all be stolen."

“I couldn’t choose to hold on to or let go of feelings; instead it would be the feelings that finally gave up and released me.”

Holy shit

“The old-fashioned critic, like the Pythons, can't see that he's part of a group, because he's never been left out. He feels unbounded by his own biases; the critic doesn't even understand he has biases.”

"I struggled to process the sudden severance. I didn't know how to deal with the feeling that there was nothing to process, despite the fact that my emotions declared a different reality."

“Silence: the great conversation killer.” Lol????

Why did Imogen’s whole am-I-queerbaiting and if-I’m-not-queerbaiting-it’s-at-least-appropriation thing get repeated almost verbatim within a couple of chapters 😐 I really get what Albertalli is trying to do, I do, but I feel like I got it within the first 100 pages… 300 more on top of that just feels redundant

“That I'm afraid? I’m not. Fear involves certainty. You know what you're afraid of.” Except no it? Literally doesn’t? I mean, the fear of the unknown is HUGE in horror. What 😭😭

I feel cheated