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there’s something so romantic about lebyatkin’s poetic aspirations

“i pray to everything. look there: a spider crawling on the wall - i look at it and i am grateful to it for crawling”

“what i mean is… that when flies crawl into a glass in summer, they turn into cannibal-flies; any fool can understand that”

loving the drama thus far

almost 100 pages in and this page includes the sentence “let me now describe the almost forgotten incident with which my story really begins”

i feel like i should be feeling more but i genuinely cannot believe that ***** is dead

I AM GOING TO VOMIT

so eerie i love it

already loving it

things are finally getting fun!

so much of this book revolves around ava and samantha being bffs and literally living together, but someone samantha doesn’t even have a key to their apartment???? make it make sense

idk if i can handle 200 more pages like this

what is with both of samantha’s friends having eye conditions

cannot believe that mona awad used “so much/many” (as in “like so much insane frosting” and “like so many ghosts”) THREE TIMES IN A SINGLE PAGE. idk why but this bugs me

“the young man replied, much amused to find himself discussing the object of his adoration in this casual way” how precious

“but it represented to him that he had not shared, even dimly and remotely, in an event which concerned her very closely. why should he share, and what was more natural than that the things which concerned her closely should not concern him at all?”

grace is really beginning to stress me out…

cannot read this in any way other than grace being completely & head over heels in love with verena

every page reminds me of how much i love henry james

never have i better understood the phrase “compulsively readable”