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“And so, we became friends, after all, thank God, because in spite of everything, he was still one of the few people who could make me laugh, even though he never looked into my eyes in the same innocent way again.”

“But the real trouble with tango was I had no partner to practice with every day—and the thing about the dance world was, men who could dance couldn’t talk, and men who could talk, hated dancing. Which put me at a grave disadvantage.”

“Everything will work out, but badly.”

“Here is a physicist who can imagine as well as scan. Now bring me the poet who can explain quantum gravity.”

“Everything is true.” He said. “Everything anybody has ever thought.”

“Or did I want neither but needed to think I did because otherwise I’d have to look into my life and find huge, bleak craters everywhere going back to that scuttled, damaged loved I’d told them about earlier that evening.”

“There is always someone. And yet it is always no one. What these men have to offer I already have. And everything they want they don’t deserve, or I may not have in me to give.”

Judy Poovey is the only morally sound character in this book btw

You’d literally think it was illegal to make a good decision 200 years ago

Oh Nelly, the woman you are

I JUST realized the narrator is a man

“I believe that that love remains so strong and powerful in your memory because it was your first deep being-alone and the first inward work you did on your life”

Type shit

Fourteen pages in and I already want to say this is my favorite book

i fear we’re encroaching on american psycho territory and i do not know if i can handle that all over again

“But then I say what I think, and care very little whether others think as I do.”

Lord Pococurante is such a diva i’m gagged

what a strange little book!

HOW DOROTHY FINALLY STARTED READING THE BITE BOOK

CHAPTER I

don’t do this to me 💔

THE SUN IS OUT AGAIN—which means i’m back into reading. im a little worried this one is going over my head but it’s very good

the last 200 pages are so tea

rip hetty, you would’ve loved abortion rights 😔

new year new attempt to finish adam bede

the original Ihatemybf

out of my reading slump, it’s time to lock in and finish this thing