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the random walt whitman glaze has been going on for too long

picking this back up 🙂‍↕️

cameron annoys me so much i’m considering not finishing the book

this book is so good and so interesting especially after reading “with her own hands” like wow the history of textile crafts is so interwoven (heh) with history and myth and LIFE

SO INTERESTING!!!!!!!!

trying to finish this even though i’m bored 😭

“A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river but then he’s still left with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away but then he’s still left with his hands.”

“As a child I thought loving two places - embodying two places in one body - meant dividing yourself. Now, I know that the act of loving multiplies the heart; it does not segment it.”

“i love you. i love you. i love you. i’ll write it in waves, in skies, in my heart. you'll never see, but you will know. i’ll be all the poets, i’ll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you.”

ARE YOU JOKINGGGGGGGGGGG OH MY GOD

“‘you dont matter’ seems to fuel his every step, his every bite. ‘so live as you please’”

“But the truth is I love my friends more than I have loved any partner. They are the people who have shown me what it means to love and be loved.”

“my mother taught me to hunt, but my father taught me to be hunted”

“it seemed both proper and at the same time deeply unfair that so much of life was left to chance”