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“These might sound like minor traits, or even givens that I should take for granted, but I hold on to them like life preservers”

“I love these things about the man. But I do not love the man.”

“There’s a difference. Being in love is frantic. Fluttery. Falling. It’s nervous sweats and pounding heartbeats and a feeling of tremendous rightness, or so I hear. I don’t have that. I love him forty percent.”

““I know they say it’s the quiet ones you’ve got to watch out for, but he’s never been anything but nice to me and doesn’t deserve the side-eye. He is probably not Jack the Ripper”

probably not but.

“My shiny lip gloss was developed in a lab to magnetize the mouths of men”

“His full toned voice swells in my ears, his lustrous eyes dwell on me with all their melancholy sweetness; I see his thin hand raised in an animation while the lines of his face are radiated by the soul within”

Letter I- “Margaret el que tenga miedo a morir que no nazca”

The bath song is gonna be stuck in my head

Merry showed up weary, on their way to buckleberry ferry

The introduction placed in a small burrow of the vast histories of the world is a nice touch to ease readers across the incited journey ahead.

Having the names and jobs of the various hobbit families felt like going through my old barrio

Can’t help but feel bad for Gandalf having to fight a friend he’s known for ages. I believe the rings temptation is just enhancing who bilbo had already become in the hobbit

“The road goes ever on and on”

Samwise’s dad Ham Gamgee is the master of PO TAY TOES

The foreword of this edition is quite captivating and kind to read.

The introduction gives you a small journey of the printed history of TLOTR which is super interesting to me.

Tolkiens second editions foreword comes with great lines like “if the great war resembled the real war , sauron wouldn’t have been defeated but captured” and “as the story grew it put down its roots into the past”

“You mean that actually worked? anda pa’ los changos”

“Find 12 problems that you’re interested in and compare them to everything you learn solutions are out there”

What would be your 12?

“we have a chance to do good! i don’t need a reason to help anyone, i just do it”

Tubal-Caín Forges a Star - Que carajo acabo de leer

I would completely decimate one of those zucchini sandwiches at the beach described in this chapter. AND WITH WATERMELON??

"If you’re not sure salt will fix the problem, take a spoonful or small bite and sprinkle it with a little salt, then taste again. Like a jazz musician’s ear, with use it will grow more sensitive, more refined, and more skilled at improvisation."

"Taste, taste, and then taste again,” she would tell me, even as I did something as simple and seemingly boring as sautéing an onion"

not me trying to eat that lasagna in the prologue

“-Un quedado? Ay fo - nos reímos al unisono”

“Tenía una afición especial por la moda y el maquillaje. Ella era la que veía los peinados en las revistas y los practicaba en nosotras. La que criticaba la ropa de los artistas en las revistas Tú y nos hacía los quizes de ¿cómo saber si le gustas a tu crush ? y ¿qué personaje de highschool musical eres según tu personalidad?”

como enano simpatizo con Josué, shoutout a las Paolas de la vida

“our relationship with siblings or close friends can function as some of the most important attachment bonds that we have. For many a friend or a sibling can serve as a primary attachment figure.”

“the word trauma comes from the Greek word wound”
i wonder if there was a mythologized goddess of siren of trauma in the pantheon

Need books to just @ me next time
“Due to their history of trauma, their sense of self and others have been impaired. When trauma occurs, there is a rupture with the foundational relationship a person has with their self.”