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He felt he was safe, because his human had come back to him, from a strange world where he couldn’t have followed her. I laid my cards and stopped being afraid. Whether the night was going to be bad or good, I wanted to take it as it came, and not resist it.

Holding Cholly as a model of sin and failure, she bore him like a crown of thorns, and her children like a cross.

This book is so good at reminding me how brutal puberty actually was🫩

Starting this book while in Italy was the best decision 🤭

So mad I haven’t learned this at school… my quality of life would have been so much better..

First impression: I was right to be intimidated 🥲

Idk how to feel about this one. I really wanted to like it but so far I’m just bored??

He’s old enough to know that relationships don’t guarantee happiness, that the source of his pain is a patriarchal fantasy, agonizingly elaborated over decades, about love and sex as the basis of fulfillment. But he still feels he cannot be happy until this pain stops, and it will not stop until he has an experience of love that will at last disillusion him.

Read the first 2 pages in 17 minutes, but a win is a win! Officially started reading my first book in Dutch!🤪