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So it’s Hal and our narrator who we have not been introduced to in terms of names.

“A spot of sunshine, a light that caught the eye in a waste of commonplace houses, and all the dreary dimness of a narrow city street. ”

Then in the very bright spots she keeps still, and in the very shady spots she just takes hold of the bars and shakes them hard.

and I've caught him several times LOOKING AT THE PAPER! And Jennie too. I caught Jennie with her hand on it once.

By daylight she is subdued, quiet. I fancy it is the pattern that keeps her so still. It is so puzzling. It keeps me quiet by the hour.

And I know John would think it absurd. But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way—it is such a relief!

“At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candle light, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars!”….

“There comes John, and I must put this away,— he hates to have me write a word.” men. 😒

john what did you do 🧐

“It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.”

wtf am i reading. why the f*** was that dream she had even necessary to the story omg. if i werent so f****** stubborn i would dnf tbe book

“I thought, This kid still has something to live for. I ripped out the threatening page and never told anyone about it, certainly not Aisha.”

um hello?????????????? what???????????????????????

“proposed that he restructure the interview so that the climax was a reveal of how his father had beat his mother up”

oh shes crazy.

“ At some point, the shekel dropped from my hand, into my mouth, and disappeared. There was only the movement of the coin, and then nothing.”

So far she hates poor people and believes those who clean are solely women. “I could have paid someone to do it for me, the cleaning, but I couldn’t trust another woman with my home,”

idk what to think

“I’m just going to say it. I didn’t want poor people to see my body. Their desperation scared me.”

uh…..

“You’re right that the American flag also features the color blue, but one cannot get to the bottom of it with all those stripes and stars. What an overbearing flag, just the thought of it twists my eyeballs.”

“Money I had enough of and pleasure one cannot possess. And teachers have power, don’t forget that”

“Dirt was my first hypothesis. It had its way of going where nothing else would go, and I kept seeing it, on surfaces, in corners, underneath furniture and long nails.”

“Community, Identity, Stability” ….

she told him about daisy. ☹️

poor jack ☹️

yikes. 21 years??????? is he joking???

She had a child 🥲

paris…. new york… HE DIDNT EVEN GO??????

can they not just dump sam…?

yash and jordan. omg 😭

Yash and Jordan are on a date. No Sam 🤣

“Don’t forget to graduate someday!”

Yea id beat him up.

omg. she fell, i dont like sam. For some reason he blames his shortcomings on HER. He’s a rude and condescending prick. Don’t even get me started on the family trip.