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"It's not like we can keep ourselves from dying by not talking about it," said Vinegar, patting her knees decisively, "no more than we can get rich by not paying our bills. They come due when they come due."

"Are you ambitious? Every career is open to you. Stir up the world, change it, commit any kind of folly, be a criminal if you must, but live!"

"They were at the top of the Montée de Villejuif, on the plateau from which Paris is a dark sea shimmering with millions of lights like phosphorescent waves; and waves they are, more thunderous, more passionate, more shifting, more furious and more greedy than those of the stormy ocean, waves which never experience the tranquillity of a vast sea, but constantly pound together, ever foaming and engulfing everything"

'Why? There is only one serious matter to be considered in life, and that is death'

Long ahh book

Absolutely fantastic so far. Definitely going to be one of my favourite books.

Usually I love road trip arcs for character development, but this book has been a drag compared to the last one 🫠

I've been at this book for so long now kill me

"It's a curious thing to realise you hate someone so much you could kill them. You might imagine it to be a conscious decision. Often, it comes as more of a discovery. Like stumbling on a box of belong-ings you must always have had but never realised were there."

Can this book get where it's going already broo there's 50 pages left and nothing has happened 😭 it's been a nothing sandwich so far

One of my friends told me that the book got better in the second half... OH BOY WAS SHE RIGHT AND I'M SO GLAD OF IT. ACTUALLY CRAZY WTF.

Why is this dialogue so cartoonishly cringe 😭

'She looked around at every-one, even those behind the cameras, and raised her glass up high, squeezing too hard.

She cleared her throat.

"To the most fucked-up family in America. Cheers!"'

Unfortunately, she has once again written a very unlikeable main character 😭😭 I cba

"All I will say is that you show up for your friends on their hardest days. And you hold their hand through the roughest parts. Life is about who is holding your hand and, I think, whose hand you commit to holding."

"You have to have one person in your life that you know would never do anything to steer you wrong. They may disagree with you. They could even break your heart, from time to time. But you have to have one person, at least, who you know will always tell you the truth."

Wuh luh wuh??

Oh... Am I sensing undertones of climate change denial.... Oh no.........

"You'll have to forgive me. I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.
Like a White Russian drinking tea in Paris, marooned in the twentieth century, I wander back, try to regain those distant pathways; I become too maudlin, lose myself."