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This is how the bubonic plague spread, stop eating rats

I would actually kill myself

" “Mother, why is its face so ugly?” A tiny voice asks."

LMAO

This is a fever dream

"It wasn’t a monster come to eat me. It was this monster.
Who’s come to eat me out."

Shut the fuck up right now, there's so much NC sexual encounters so far and it's so uncomfortable and just so so shocking I am horrified right now

There's no fucking way, of course it's this plot

"To think I haven’t dressed properly for alien abduction."

Shut up, I don't want to hear it, this is a buddy read and I'm morbidly curious

"'It is strange that we, who are capable of so much suffering, should inflict so much suffering."

"Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth."

"Should this be the end of the story? a kind of sigh? a last ripple of the wave? A trickle of water in some gutter where, burbling, it dies away?"

"I touch nothing. I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling me over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me."

"People keep on passing. Yet you shall not destroy me. For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob. "

I saw this coming but R.I.P. anyways :(

"'Death is woven in with the violets,' said Louis. 'Death and again death.' "

"Now is our festival; now we are together. But without Percival there is no solidity. We are silhouettes, hollow phantoms moving mistily without a background."

"It is, however, true that my dreaming, my tentative advance like one carried beneath the surface of a stream, is interrupted, torn, pricked and plucked at by sensations, spontaneous and irrelevant, of curiosity, greed, desire, irresponsible as in sleep."

"'Let me then create you. (You have done as much for me.)"

The entirety of Chapter 11 >>>>>>>>>>>>>

"There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star, "Consume me." "

"But I am also one who will force himself to desert these windy and moonlit territories, these midnight wanderings, and confront grained oak doors. I will achieve in my life — Heaven grant that it be not long — some gigantic amalgamation between the two discrepancies so hideously apparent to me."

'I burn, I shiver,' said Jinny, 'out of this sun, into this shadow.'