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adding scurvy to my list of greatest fears

*present tense, not first person pov

back to reading for book club meeting 2! but not sure i’m liking this shift to first person pov for crozier in chapter 27

“there are men and women - we know it from history - who have been born into the world for each other, and for no one else, who have accomplished the longest journey locked in each other’s arms.” why am i thinking of lucas and max rn

“he had shown her all the workings of the soul, mistaking this for love”

“he gave the idea of an animal with just enough soul to contemplate its own bliss”

“you can’t be good until you’ve had a little happiness. then perhaps you will think less about forgiving people and more about loving them.”

“knowledge’s desire is superseded by experience’s devotion”

“he did not aspire to beauty or wisdom, but he prayed to be delivered from the shadow of unreality that had begun to darken the world”

the tide is turning again

“in his short life rickie had known two sudden deaths, and that is enough to dissarange any placid outlook on the world”

“had i missed the point of ivan? did i care more about my idea of myself than i did about him?”

i feel like i’m looking in a mirror….

“attraction had a permeable border with repulsion”

i missed selin

officially caught up for the next book club meeting

ok so it’s a yeti?

no way did we just get a polar bear mention

if the monster is a measly polar bear i am going to be annoyed

no way this gets resolved in 100 pages

shoutout to this book for getting me through 2 flat tires on our thanksgiving roadtrip

things are dragging a little bit…

“but the love of your life was an abject coward even as a boy.” how PRECIOUS