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“Enjoy your children while you may, they will not be yours for long.” Oop

"Did you know that the average viewing time per person is now three hours a day? Soon people won't be living their own lives any more. It will be a full-time job keeping up with the various family serials on TV!"

Conservative screen time estimates from a book written in 1953. Oh if they could see us now.

rashy new fav character?

the overlords are disturbingly amiable

"No one knew their motives, and no one knew toward what future they were shepherding mankind."

"'It's enough now, my darling Ove.'
And then it was enough."

"She liked talking and Ove liked keeping quiet. Retrospectively, Ove assumed that was what people meant when they said that people were compatible."

"Ove had never been asked how he lived before he met her. But if anyone had asked him, he would have answered that he didn't."

sometimes all we need is an annoying neighbor and a stray cat

did i hear...angst?

going to Norfolk brb

bro what is even happening even

The agony of Gordon is so much greater when you’re forced to consider the joy of Bear. Ouch

Julian < / 3

Julian 3

Julian 3

bear <3

I’m inspired by this (said lovingly) crotchety old woman’s ability to befriend anyone through the act of correspondence

getting the urge to pen pal again

i'm currently inside the mind of a 73-year-old woman

this is looking more and more like la la land and I'm not liking it

So sweet to read about a budding love that feels grand in its mundanity

"though she didn't feel the need to perform for him. Was that good or bad? Never mind."

characters so charming I can't help but laugh

this is slow going