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"The world seemed capable of including these things and my eyes were capable, my brain was capable, of receiving and understanding them. I was tired, it was late, I was sitting half-asleep in the back of a taxi, remembering strangely that wherever I go, you are with me, and so is he, and that as long as you both live the world will be beautiful to me."

Rip my heart out, why don't you? I miss my ex best friend T-T

Started listening to this on audiobook yesterday and I couldn't possibly recommend it enough to anyone seeking to inform themselves on this topic. I possibly don't align with 100% of Bartov's views, but it can not be understated, that he is one of THE most important Jewish-Israeli academic voices standing tall for humanism and an end to violence and oppression.

Yeaaaah, I'm going to dnf this. Sadly the slice of life pace in this book is killing my reading experience, which is probably why I was struggling before and put it aside for 4 years or something, charming as it is.

So hard to grasp at times, yet deeply beautiful in a transient sort of way.

I think a challenge should be made out of finding the few chapters in this book, in which Chris does not describe one or more food dishes xD

Leave it to one of the 'New Historians' of Jewish-Israeli academia, to have to balls to say that Hamas isn't a terrorist organization, but a legitimate liberation movement. I mean, it's clearly both, but to so heavily emphasize the legitimacy of the armed Palestinian struggle for liberation is especially impressive to me.

"I look out at the scene. The flakes float on the water and dissolve, joining with the river as it sails past me towards the sea. I love snow. Snow can make anything beautiful."

Alice Osman created a manic pixie dream boy in this...equality?

"There's a time and a place for being normal. For most people normal is their default setting. But for some, like you and me, normal is something we have to bring out, like putting on a suit for a posh dinner."

"Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all; and to 'burst' with boldness and good-will into 'the silent sea' of their souls is often to confer on them the first of obligations."

Really opening up my eyes to some things.

Mr. Rochester turned out to be a real asshole. Not just cause of the lies, but the way he talks about other women and the way he idealizes Jane...big red flags!

Jane really just said: "Yeah, Rochester is ugly, but he's my kinda ugly." She really was ahead of her time. Also I love how clingy and dramatic Rochester is being. He's so smitten, haha.

"I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking - a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless."

This should be a mandatory read for anyone who ever wants to speak on this conflict.

Already learned some stuff here.

The winter chapter has been my fav so far.

"Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Like Sam said. Because it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them."

"So if this does end up being my last letter, please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And I will believe the same about you."

Thank you, Charlie.

Will Sally Rooney ever write a novel about characters, who communicate with one another clearly and healthily? I mean, not that I'm complaining or anything. Just saying.

"At times I thought this was the worst misery I had experienced in my life, but it was also a shallow misery, which at any time could have been relieved completely by a word from him and transformed into idiotic happiness."

Too relatable.

I'm feeling that Sally Rooney magic again. Ohhhhh, baby!

The tea is steaming hot and I'm enjoying every sip!

You just gotta love Poirot.

The hell is this old man's deal? Is this gonna be supernatural?