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he’s dead. how is there still almost 300 pages left

actually got chills

mini spoiler warning !

the way their friend trusted them w the knowledge of his daily life and movement patterns just for those he trusts most and whom he’s closest
with to just use that knowledge against him is so terrifying. especially w how richard mentioned bunny isnt doing anything supper different. but now they’ve killed the stranger they’re open to killing whoever is so scary

shocking ! another character makes a sexist comment !

“love doesn’t conquer everything. and whoever thinks it does is a fool”

“of course i didn’t see this crucial moment then for what it was; i suppose we never do”

omg henry referencing paradise lost (a book about the fall of man) is crazy. now that im rereading this book im noticing so many details and references that foreshadow what is to come and it just makes me love this book even more.
also crazy coincidence i just marked paradise lost as want to read bc i watched a video essay on the fall of man and they discussed how good that book was

“i too appear as something of a stranger in these early memories” UGH I LOVE THIS BOOK SM

“easy to see why the romans … persecuted the christians mercilessly - how absurd to think a common criminal had risen from the dead, how appalling that his followers celebrated him by drinking his blood. the illogic of it frightened them and they did everything they could to crush it ... i think the reason they took such drastic steps was because they were not only frightened but also terribly attracted to it”

“even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us. our own selves make us most unhappy, and that’s why we’re so anxious to lose them”

“i am nothing in my soul if not obsessive”
so iconic.

“i don’t think i can explain the despair my surroundings inspired in me” UGH i forgot how much i love the language used thought this book. the feeling of love for donna tartt is quickly creeping back into me

was i 92% done this book ? yes ! am i restarting it bc i don’t remember what happened ? yes !
i was hooked on this book a few of years ago but never finished it (shocker !) so i’m going to reread it

i feel like her explanations of things over the past few pages have just been very surface level and not that helpful ? like yes let people think and react however they do and don’t let it effect you and distance yourself - but in most situations it isn’t that easy and her advice seems like she is trying to be as universal as possible but in doing so it just seems like generic tips everyone has heard before :/

“people can only meet you as deeply as they’ve met themselves”

sooo i have to do a twenty minute group project in my philosophy class that’s due on monday and the prof only just assigned it today … i have a million other finals due this week and next week im so screwed and scared. please pray for me i have to read this whole book and write a presentation on it and my groupmates are refusing to share their contact info ?! like wtf help

i think i’m going to like this book ! s/o to the bisexual philosopher woman who wrote this

guess who started a new book even though i’m in the middle of reading a billion others !? 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️

LOL finally getting going to get my drivers license yall

omg i love her writing so far

“religion, moral, philosophical, and juridical ideas have been modified in the course of historical development. but religion, morality, philosophy, political, science, and law, constantly survived this change”

“does it require deep intuition to comprehend that man’s ideas, views, and conceptions, in one word, man’s consciousness, changes with every change in the conditions of his material existence, in his social relations and in his social life?”

i’m slowly catching up in my anthropology readings 💪💪

“they did not believe death was accidental - life might be, but death was deliberate”

it is an interesting way to think that the bourgeois society focuses on the past > the present, and the communist society views the present > the past

this book keeps talking about the bourgeoisie and all i can think about is conan gray’s song abt it