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Currently crying

This was beautiful and eye-opening, something I had never really thought of much, though in my language, unlike English, we do not have "it".

"(...) when you don’t feel the warm feathers cool in your hand and know that a life has been given for yours, when there is no gratitude in return—that food may not satisfy. (...) Something is broken when the food comes on a Styrofoam tray wrapped in slippery plastic, a carcass of a being whose only chance at life was a cramped cage. That is not a gift of life; it is a theft."

1 chapter in and I already feel like a whole different person... This book is magical

I'm writing one hell of an essay, be warned.

He is so self-aware and yet so clueless of his own nature. What a sad miserable little person.

How surprising it is that he cannot see prostitutes as human beings, she says with sarcasm.

Here's the misogyny people warned me about

"I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind—of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another."

“As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be all right. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.”

Yup, autism confirmed

"Whenever anyone criticized me I felt certain that I had been living under the most dreadful misapprehension. I always accepted the attack in silence, though inwardly so terrified as almost to be out of my mind"

My autism radar is tingling.

"Before anyone realized it, I had become an accomplished clown, a child who never spoke a single truthful word"

"I don’t know ... If you’ve slept soundly at night the morning is exhilarating, I suppose."

Ain't that a relatable quote?

I can count in one hand the amount of times I woke up and wasn't immediately hit with the weight of tiredness on my shoulders and yet I'm supposed to be chirping like the birds and walking around as if I've somehow rested a day in my life...

I feel—to speak of it would be to contain what it did to me, to make it small. I don’t want to do that (...) Even poetry, which breaks language into meaning—poetry ossifies, in time, the way trees do. What’s supple, whipping, soft, and fresh grows hard, grows armor. if I could touch you, put my finger to your temple and sink you into me the way Garden does—perhaps then. But I would never.
So this letter instead.

Why is he giving her lessons instead of stealing her away? And how is he even there? Why?

Do we really need an Apollo POV? He could just drop dead for all I care

horrible and all that but I can't bring myself to care for this girl

I don't like her idc

I don't like how there's an Helene POV but okay... I'll giver her a chance

weakass b, should've killed her off omg you dumb idiot

This has nothing to do with this book, but I just read a review that pissed me off so much I wanted to come here and talk about it.

Usually, I respect people's right to their own opinion, but collective stupidity drives me insane, and it managed to piss me off in the middle of a vacation on the 26th of December.

Gave it up... I'm tired of this booooook

did she just ue the expression "alpha male" as something positive???????????????????????????

whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy no ew??? couldn't the author have chosen a different body part??? also whyyyyyyyyyy? I hate whoever recommended this to me, I didn't know it was PORN

OK, I GET IT, SHE'S TINY

THE PLOT TWIST

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

ew

enough is ENOUGH

enough is enough SWITCH THE DAMN POV