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“Stewart has a million nicknames for me…Vasco da Gama when I get lost.” Oh my god that’s the first tolerable thing he’s said all book. I laughed.

Love when I learn an English word that I previously thought had only existed in Spanish so I have to relearn how to pronounce it. Maquillage,,, who knew?

The concept of alluding to The Pale Blue Dot and The Blue Marble. Kind of genius. I love outer space photography.

“Sadness, I think, is the object. And grief is the negative space.” Not funny

“I wonder, what is the weight of my grief if it cannot be carried by others? What is the measure?” Reading this book at a cookout and making myself feel nothing but doom and despair…okay

France down 0-4 in the second half. Ruth down 0-infinity in the last chapter. This place is tough.

Two chapters of doom and despair left

Sudden rain?? Great Gatsby…

Not Lover Man by Billie Holiday coming on just as the wedding scene starts omg

“I resolved right then to start an argument with him the moment the opportunity presented itself.” She’s just like me

“James is too self-absorbed to ever kill himself.” Oh my goodness

“Family was also a social construct.” Oh ok

“Now I understood (suffering) as useful in a new way, as something that could be made into art.” Ruth needs to watch S6, EP10 of Bojack Horseman

Wait the back to back homophobia and mejorando la raza help help help enough of this

“A boy read Kant…but when we came closer we saw he was only on the first page.” He’s just like me!!!!

Rastafarian shade noooo

RISD!!! Love that place

Loco parentis? I miss HSLI

President Kenyatta mentioned! This place rocks 🇰🇪🇰🇪😍

“When I met Maria, I learned that without an obsession life was impossible to live. I’d forgotten. Now, I remembered.” What an opening paragraph!

Opening w Kafka epigraph? Yeah I’m cooked

Oh

“Wear a mask for long enough, it may become your face.” That’s what the point of the mask is - Dream 2021 💔

Price of Salt allusion?? We are so up

“many historians have attempted to erase us…but we’ve always been here, in the margins.” Omggg this is like my poem

“Like a whole life is being lived inside this small moment. Like there’s something in me that recognizes…myself, perhaps.”

If this book dare makes me cry I’ll actually fight it

"I was worried, he says, that she
wasn’t interested in boys!" I'm crying why would he say this in front of Greg

I’m so fucking scared

“The weight of my own potential. The fear of a freedom. Doesn’t every silver lining come with a big, dark cloud?” The old man on the frontier 💔

“I can exist peripherally, if that’s what she needs.” Alright man