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hutch my goat

this is why u need your homegirls in ur life man… no more of this gaslighting isolation BS ro..

wth guy

rosemary & guy are such a cute couple. her thinking their fellow tenant looked like a celebrity and him coming to the same conclusion himself 😭 they’re so silly

“The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all… The antidote is a baby step.”

people with bad vibes with infect you if you hang around them enough

on enemies: “a person who has something to prove will move mountains for you”

so far, this is giving “how to be a manipulator 101” 😭😭 lessons on how to strat in life if ur evil

idk why i added this to my reading list.. interesting but not what i usually read so.. i’m dropping this..

“sometimes, you will have to turn down a seemingly very good option, and have faith that the perfect option will soon come along.”
i need to apply this thinking to hinge man..

“how do you thank a brother who refused to let you go, who seized your hand and wrenched you upward, just as you had decided to stop kicking and sink?” YES TYLEEERRR

“… to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind… if i yielded now, i would lose more than an argument. i would lose custody of my own mind… what my father wanted to cast from me wasn’t a demon; it was me.”

“what was needed was a revolution, a reversal of the ancient, brittle roles we’d been playing out since my childhood. what was needed— what emily needed— was a woman emancipated from pretense, a woman who could show herself to be a man. voice an opinion. take action in scorn of deference. a father.”
chilling ref to her previous thoughts on mother/fatherhood & her idea of their roles in the family dynamic

“… never again would i allow myself to be made a foot soldier in a conflict i did not understand.” OH PERIODDDDDDDDDD

“… its not affecting me, that was its effect.” it’s crazy bc shawn is rarely mentioned until these chapters and we get these earlier memories where he’s the big brother that’s dependable and looks out for her. sure, he has his flaws— he fights & treats women like shit but it’s fine bc he still treats tara well right? all these thoughts are dashed as she grows older and experiences the very same abuse

“‘nobody plays stupid like my mother.’” it’s sad to see how ignorance was a point of pride for her younger self.

extremely descriptive stories n the takeaway will be “hey. sometimes that’s just life.” real but horrifying.. i guess good for anybody that aspires to join the SEALs? scary

PARA organization method is ok.

when getting this as a rec, i got the impression that it would help optimize productivity & shift from consuming -> creating.

HOWEVER, this is just common sense. we consume so much information, right? how might one remember important info to use in the future? take notes! (how revolutionary!) having trouble finding the notes u need? organize them :)

helpful for those who’ve never opened their notes app.