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“passivity proved a greater strain than anger”

“bud was imagining killing himself violently and in public, maybe at the mall.” i’m sorry this made me audibly laugh

“I still believed in our love story, in our happiness as a family. Those stories are preserved in the words we wrote to each other, in the movies James made, in the albums I made, in the life we collected over the years. But they also exist in our kids' minds, in their skin and bones, in their souls. And in mine. James changed our present and our future, but not our past.”

“once a woman is painted as a hysteric, the rest of the story is washed away.”

“‘boo-hoo. poor belle. always the victim.’” i hate men

“she had captured my husband’s attention, his care, when i needed it most” :(

“i would drape my own soul over her body to protect her from eyes like mine.”

“i want her to know that i would always be here to disappoint her, if she would only give me the chance”

“-all my life she has been my only role model, my greatest aspiration, but since i started to see her as a person beyond a parent, i have seen her as a grave misfortune, and now i cannot go back to the way i saw her before.”

OUCH??????

“it appears that motherhood is the nearest thing to an inherited career that i can hope for”

“Even at my small age, I understood that there were limits to love, and I felt sure that one day people would run out of love tor me.”

i haven’t been this angry reading a book in a LONG TIME. i hate mrs richardson so much and she’s one of the worst written characters ive ever had the misfortune to read about

“-she never even noticed that it was missing, and somehow this hurt him most of all.” :( poor moody loves this girl so innocently and so much

“-just the other day, she’d seen moody reach out to pluck a wayward leaf from pearl’s hair with such tenderness that she could call it nothing other than love.”

i love strong mother daughter relationships it makes me emotional

“i idealize you in fiction because i idealize you in real life.”

“one thing,” she whispered, her lips by his jaw. she didn’t want anyone to overhear. “before i forget.”
“what’s that?”
“stop writing about me.”

“‘-girls are given the weight of the world, but nowhere to put it down.’”

“‘what a dreadful surprise,’ said beatty. ‘for everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is certain, that nothing will ever happen to me. others die, i go on. there are no consequences and no responsibilities. except that there are.-‘“

“-without the whole world waiting for you to make a mistake when all you wanted, all you wanted, sally, was to love and to love and to love and to love, and no one could call that crazy.”

xviii
“we do this because the world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.”

“Men are inept creatures. They can’t build a life for themselves without the support and kindness of a woman.”

“ in principle, all women should give themselves permission to demand good treatment, but the world made doing so profoundly difficult.”

“What the public found most alarming, even more than Kajii’s lack of beauty, was the fact that she was not thin.”

BYE ROCKY 🙁🙁🙁

“save…earth…save…erid…”

I AM IN SHAMBLES.

“be careful,” says rocky. “you are friend now.”
“thanks,” i say. “you are friend also.”
“thank.”

i can’t tell if this part of dubois and shapiro being open about their sex life is purely for humor or if it has a purpose but either way i find it funny

“you knew this when you left earth, question?”
“yes.”
“you are good human.”