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reading for class and its .. not bad

rereading aka listening to the audiobook because i miss reading but am struggling sooo hard with it! so settling for listening to a story i already love

dear god let this help my reading slump!

“is everyone ashamed and pretending not to be?” yeah gillian i’m asking the same question

actually teary eyed and mad what do you mean its over 60% done and no mention of mkultra i feel like killing someone how am i crazier than the conspiracy guy

“Cyrus father tended to avoid claiming knowledge not his own, though of course he didn’t have his wife’s driven curiosity. Cyrus prided himself in descending from people comfortable sitting in uncertainty. He himself knew little about anything and tried to remember that. He read once about a Sufi prayer that went Lord, increase my bewilderment. That was the prayer in its entirety.”

“you believe the stuff you read in there?” LMFAO this line could probably sum up this whole ordeal

“A drug works until it doesn’t. Dependence grows until it eclipses everything else in the addicts life. Rotten sun. Joy withers in the absence of light.”

“What was there to complain about? A murdered wife? A sore back? The wrong grade copper? Living happened till it didn’t. There was no choice in it. To say no to a new day would be unthinkable. So each morning you said yes, then stepped into the consequence.”

i fucking love this book already

“Sometimes bad things ate just senseless brutality that finds you. You do not deserve or ask for these things. They are not always teaching you a lesson.”

“It’s funny how our desires can cut a memory groove like on a record.”

“But I was a kid and this was our lot. All these things I occupied myself with seemed to take up no time at all. This was a different, softly pine-scented loneliness than when I was with my dad, one that was less harsh, witnessed by the countless eyes and ears of the nature around me, so I wasn’t alone. But I was still stranded, still unwanted. The ways to be unwanted were inexhaustible, it seemed…”

“But those rare excursions couldn’t touch the bottomless loneliness of those days, the feeling that I was tiny, dwarfed by even the long grass. The pain of it was like a new brand, pressed down over the freshly healed brand of my mom’s disappearing. The scar tissue screamed under my clothes.”

bittersweet childhood i will always love you in any way you are told

the story has FINALLY picked up dear god..

this feels like baby’s first therapy / psych 101

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i loveee reading/learning about drama in spheres i am completely uninvested and unknowledgeable about, this is written so well and i cant wait to finish

openness to human relationality does not mean revealing grand truths from the apse; it means meeting [patients] where they are, in the narthex or nave, and bringing them as far as you can

hmmmm

baby’s first day back at the slop factory

every book i pick up makes me want to cry or throw up or bite it so im just gonna try everything until something pulls

can someone recommend me a romance with a likable lead woman i cant keep living like this

so millennialllllllll

im gonna be honest i almost put this book down after the dated ass introduction… still idk

“it’s just silence and emptiness and light.” i’m so excited to read another pico iyer book, he’s one of my favorite writers and his prose is otherworldly to me at times. excited 2 see what this book is!!!

they put CRACK IN THIS BOOK!!!!!! HELP THEY TRIGGERED MY ADDICTION GENE!!!!! HELPPPPP!!!!!