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taylor jenkins reid i love your writing

guys i’m so scared rn

to no one’s surprise, i have stumbled my way into gc4

guess i’m binging this series now

“ask the rain what it was like to be the river / then ask the river who it drowned” — banger after banger

this one’s been a long time coming

“i used to hope […] that i’d die before my partner, even though i knew that was selfish. i used to think that i hoped i’d die before she died and before the planet and really just before things generally got worse.” — reading this as someone who has harbored these exact thoughts was something

“i want to explain her in a way that would make you love her, but the problem with this is that loving is something we all do alone and through different sets of eyes.” — OW

summer read! summer read! summer read!

is this a secret society or a harem???

guys, i fear i like it

guys, i fear i like it

“all right,” she said. “so we can’t be lovers, and we can’t be friends. what should we be instead?”
“you’ll be the heroine, of course. and i’ll be the monster. and it’ll be a hit.”

absolute banger of a line nghi vo i was not familiar with your game

Nghi Vo’s writing style is enchanting oh my goodness

realizing slowly that i am nothing if not a fan of magical realism

been in such a slump guys, i need an impossible-to-put-down read to fall into my lap to save me so bad

“Monster in more ways than one,” I said, understanding, and Harry nodded.

“Monsters to others perhaps, but at home we are simply ourselves. Best you learn that early on.”

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This is one of the most beautiful ways I’ve ever heard it said what it is to be queer and in love with

the writing in this book makes me feel like i’m floating through a field of clouds

“This studio which would try to devour me in a dozen different ways was mine, from the wolves to the pond I would never be able to find again, to the dust that scourged the paint from the signs.
It was all mine, and as strange as it was, as dangerous and as odd, that victory seized me and never let me go.”

sooooo so excited to see where this goes~

“i’m burning those pictures and i’ll send you the ashes” OKAY YES MA’AM

“The immortality of women was a sideways thing, haphazard and contained in footnotes, as muses or silent helpers.” … “Women disappear, and even if you are famous, it can happen without a sound, without a ripple.”

if i lived this life, i would be in a nonstop state of mental anguish, and that is not an exaggeration

i well be having nightmares about deer now, thank you for that

anyone have any good poetry book recs?

still disturbed, but now also mildly depressed

*further disturbing ensues*

well…this is highly disturbing

speeding through this book today (it’s china’s national day and everything is closed, excuse for a readathon)