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“Anyone can know what I know. My heart alone is my own.”

“Are these delusions if they make us so happy?”

I already like the language

“It was punishment I knew: for being a girl.”

“In love at a distance, so much of life has to be invented”

This is so good

Why haven’t I read anything by James Baldwin before?! Holy shit.

“…the same trees were outside, living in the ground without curiosity about the insides of houses, and growing toward death as surely as Natalie.”

everybody wants to write as well as Shirley Jackson. Damn.

Omggggg the scenes in this book! The tension building! Wow!

Very, very good.

This is ok so far just ok

“If I were writing a novel I would end it here: a novel, I used to think, has to end somewhere, but I’m beginning to believe my realism has been at fault all these years, for nothing in life now ever seems to end.”

Aaaaaa