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en español bb 🤍🤍

waterworks

cannot put this book down tbh

this chapter!!! I have no words

“Now I can look at things again because she’s here to see them too” she’s giving herself permission to exist in her present

Thin love ain’t love at all

Tough previous chapter

“You gotta love it, you!” Baby Suggs, holy, truly giving me goosebumps on this page

“You gotta love it, you!” Baby Suggs, holy, truly giving me goosebumps on this page

“On a riverbank in the cool of a summer evening two women struggled under a shower of silvery blue” Her prose is so freaking stunning and poetic and spellbinding

“It’s gonna hurt now, […] anything dead coming back to life hurts.”

I dont think I have read anything quite like this before

A man ain’t nothing but a man…

I would have rlly hated this book if it hadn’t been for Steven/Gary.

“Probably he will hurt me more than I can possibly imagine. Certainly we will never be the same again. But it’s OK. He’s well into another story”
:(

“Was I shocked into the world by you or do I still give you more credit than you deserve? I can’t say. But things have changed here, and I don’t know if I love you anymore”

tough read

“Many years later in Massachusetts, lying on a beach, I look up across the Swift River into the center of a single pine tree and miss her. Her face does not come back, nor her figure. Not a single fragment of her voice or anything she ever said” ❤️‍🩹

“Until women and men begin to think of knowledge as an erotic space of connection, both self understanding and understanding of the other, we cannot change our sense of romance“. This chapter eats ‼️‼️

“That women who have suffered much heartache still long to love is a testament to love’s power.” ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

“Wise women know that the happiest, most fulfilling committed partnerships (legalized via marriage or not) are those in which mutuality is the core value, in which the spiritual growth and development of each individual matters.” 🤍🤍🤍🤍

“Wisdom is needed if we are to demand that our culture acknowledge the journey to love as a grand, magical, life-transforming, thrilling, risky adventure.”

The past two chapters have been so good! Two more to go

“But we knew from experience that females together could produce households of sharing and mutuality, of pleasure and delight, households where womanness was at the center and mattered.”