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Guys, I don't know if I can do another first person perspective like this

Why am I Bartholomew? I didn't agree to this name. No hate to the Bartholomew's out there. Love y'all.

Lowkey, this isn’t exactly tracking in a way I’m interested in and I’m worried this is going to put me in a reading slump again like how my last attempt with this book did.

"A violent man is a sickness for all around him. Violence is a plague that spreads through everybody it comes into contact with . . . ,Violence isn’t a genetic illness, violence is a contagion, it passes from skin to skin. The heart gets infected. It’s exhausting to always be angry when you’re a child, constantly having to tense your body not to cry, because you know that if you start, you’ll never be able to stop."

"The artist tried to be happy, he really did, but he had been scared all his childhood."

"No one can explain why some fourteen - year - olds want to die. Nature gains nothing from unhappy children, yet they are still walking around everywhere, without the words to describe their anxiety. Because how could you even begin to explain such a feeling to someone who has been happy and secure all their life?..."

"Art is a nakedness, you have to be free to decide when you’re comfortable with it, and with whom."

"Every time Joar defended the people he loved, he got hurt worse and worse, love would be the death of him one day. So his friends begged him to stop. Which forced Joar to be creative."

"He feels like telling her that the artist didn’t give her the painting because it was his inheritance, he gave it to her because he realized that she was the inheritance. Art is what we leave of ourselves in other people. But he doesn’t quite know how to say that."

"...in grief we are reminded that we’re human beings. In life we might be enemies, but when faced with death, we see the truth: we are one species, all we have is each other, and where you go, I shall follow."

oh fuck off, I'm going to cry

" “On your gravestone I’m going to write: ‘I love you and I trust you.’” "

I'm getting destroyed every single page oh my god

"He’s dreamed of being able to say: “Being human is to grieve, constantly.” Because what he really wants to know is: “How the hell do all the rest of you cope?” "

"The artist didn’t know it then, but that was how he would eventually paint Joar in the picture: his outline blurred, as if you were always on the point of losing him. In the fullness of time the artist would find a way to paint laughter, make everything beautiful, because that was how he wanted to remember those days when they were fourteen. Because there was beauty too."

"Because in an ugly place, he was born with so much beauty inside him that it was like an act of rebellion. In a world full of sledgehammers, his art was a declaration of war."

"Because rich people love reminding each other about how incredibly rich they are, so rich that they can buy things from God."

What punk is taking a Krav Maga class???

"You get your happiness where you can. You reach a point where you're at the bottom of hell, yet you have your arms crossed and a smile on your face, and you feel you're the luckiest person on earth. Why? Because at your feet you have a tiny dead fish."

"It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing."

"If you want to see wildlife, it is on foot, and quietly, that you must explore a forest. It is the same with the sea. You must stroll through the Pacific at a walking pace, so to speak, to see the wealth and abundance that it holds."

"The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life."

"I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of a thing is that to do to an innocent fig tree, wither it instantly?"

Oh this is gonna be good

oh what the fuck

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES, FOOTNOTES! YES!