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How did this already manage to make me cry a little?

"Alas. I have a bad personality and a stupefying deficit of attention." Ianthe Tridentarius you will always be famous

Caving to the feminine urge to reread this series.

“The way I see it, you're a family that's built a house. And from the warm rooms of that house, you now look out at the pouring rain. Safe from menace, you only delight at the rain. You're dry and snug... I'm standing in the rain you think can never fall on you. I become one with that rain. I'm the storm you shelter from. This entire house is something you built just to avoid me.”

Apparently it’s time for my once a year contemporary romance that always lets me down. Fingers crossed very skeptically

“Because you’re Socrates. Know thyself, homo.”

😂 this should be fun

“Look, if you can’t laugh about the homicidal fits that make you a menace to society, what’s even the point?”

Istvhan should go into comedy.

This is… not what I expected. Kinda reading like shitty contemporary romance? Oh no we have to share a blanket and your boner poked me. Thought R F Kuang was supposed to be.. not that.

“Every gram counts when making stuff to send to Mars.” But NASA also sent 12 whole ass potatoes. A likely tale.

Loved this 15 years ago, let’s see if I still do.

… how is this so boring

I get summer depressed and need the serotonin

“But I understood the gendered dynamics of confession: men were meant to admit to doing terrible things. Women were meant to confess the terrible things that had been done to them.”

By the spring, this illusion of competence had dissolved-I couldn't understand anything, I was failing to prove to myself whatever it was I needed to prove-and some part of me was convinced Caleb never forgave me for that initial well-being, the way it had tricked him into thinking I was someone who knew how to be happy in life.

I fear this already slaps. And is giving Emily Austin

I will reread this book every summer until I die, probably.

“Put people in a cage and they will devote themselves to escaping it, not cooperating with those who caged them.”

“He's got two children, one stupid and the other selfish, and three grandkids, all from the stupid one and hopefully not too stupid themselves.”

Since when is this a comedy

Cue Mariah Carey “it’s tiiiiiiiiime”

I will reread this book at least once a year for the rest of my life probably.

She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn’t really like life at all.

Another time Billy heard Rosewater say to a psychiatrist, “I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren’t going to want to go on living”

“…he turned this way and that, crying out wordlessly. He took a deep breath, and shouted in crescendo: 'Multi ... cellular.. ORGANISMS!' He raised his face to the sky, thrusting his gloved fists in the air like he'd just scored a championship goal.”

… yeah I don’t think Becky Chambers is for me.

“We all know it's a lie. I'll be back by December, dejected and depressed after another failed exorcism attempt. Fadwa will have me over for a shitty dinner and the girls will try to resurrect the chicken or something and I'll sit there, silent and stressed while her father makes threatening eyebrow gestures at me and I think of all the different ways I could go drown myself.”

Why is this so fun already

My brain is burnt out on boring and/or pretentious books, needed a lil treat.

“Every time I left the beach I told myself all I had to do was put those same stones in my pockets and walk out into the water and I would never have to go home again. It was an effective fantasy; I was able to carry on because I knew I didn’t have to.”

Ah the comfort of suicidal ideation.

Just doing some light reading 😅

Parable of the Sower is killing me. I need something that isn’t just misery.

“It wasn’t my fault that turning several hundred animals inside out makes you look like the bad guy.”

“It’s hard to be all ‘let’s listen to magical inside-out animal-shield man. He obviously has some good ideas’”

Yes I just read this four months ago. I do what I want.

“My mouth is still dry, and I am still sweating more than I used to; however, I am using a knife right now and it’s only slightly occurring to me that I could kill myself with it.”

Ah the joys of SSRIs