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"The person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another."

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very hype for this one

imagine meeting a random guy on the street at 10pm and within two minutes he says he'll dream of you all night and all year long

I'd be gripping pepper spray in my hand

it's been 10 years since I read this for the first time... I am ready for a re-read

My month of reading only horror begins...

"Making people scream in pain was interesting and rewarding for them, just as it is interesting and rewarding for young boys in modern-day America to torture frogs and pull the legs off grasshoppers. Boys presumably grow out of that; for Indians, it was an important part of their culture and one they accepted without challenge."

Say what 🥴🥴

"A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life."

The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.

not even halfway through the first chapter and Murakami is already being a perv 😮‍💨

"And consider, always, every day, the determination of the grass to grow despite the unending obstacles."

reading a book about a pregnant woman shopping at IKEA in Portland when a massive earthquake hits while I'm flying to Portland and then getting Swedish meatballs at that exact IKEA a couple hours later hits different

"As we kissed I imagined eating his tail with garlic butter."

oh, the joys of making out with a merman

Valentine's Day read 💘

The way this man is talking about his wife... he sounds so punchable

how much more trauma does this book want to inflict on me...

greek mythology but it's sapphic and supremely sexy

I'm having so much fun with this so far

mentally preparing myself to be traumatized by this book

Rocky must be protected at all costs

TIL what evirati / castrati are... How absolutely wild it is that this practice existed in Italy only 200-400 years ago

why am I surprised how immediately insufferable this MC is

"No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes . . . You're in the present, you're trapped in a young now or an old now, but there is no other now to be seen."

Growing older is both frightening and a beautiful privilege...