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“Rather, democracy as we have come to know it is effectively a game of winners and losers played out among larger-than-life individuals, with the rest of us reduced largely to onlookers.”

My mind is blown. Damn.

My goodness this books makes me rethink everything (love it)

Prediction: I’m going to be experiencing a whole lot of “🤯😳😔” because of this book

Pierre Bourdieu en ‘cultureel kapitaal’ = “het gevoel van kennis die je hebt van de cultuur, de mores, de gebruiken en de normen in een bepaalde omgeving. (…) Het gaat om een ‘feel for the game’, om aanvoelen hoe je ergens hoort te praten, bewegen en je gedragen.”

Pierre Bourdieu en ‘symbolisch geweld’: “een vorm van onderdrukking wat draait om machtsverhoudingen tussen de dominante en onderdanige groep. Het gaat ook over de manier waarop ongelijke behandeling wordt geïnternaliseerd door de onderdanige groep.”

De ‘ijzeren kooi’ van Max Weber: “een rationeel geheel van bureaucratische regeltjes gericht op het bevorderen van productiviteit en efficiëntie waar je niet uit kunt ontsnappen.”

“She had a fire inside her.
She wondered if the fire was to warn her or destroy her.
Then she realised.
A fire had no motive.
Only she could have that.
The power was hers.”

“(…) the more I examined the architecture of my life, the more I realised how fraudulent were its foundations.”

Fantastic quote.

Me + historical fiction (about women) = 🫂❤️

The start of this book had me hooked. Now, I find myself struggling to finish it. I know June is supposed to be unlikeable, but I am so over her inner monologue at this point😔

“(…) the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal one dead white person.”

“‘Meneer Wilders is een man die haat zaait,’ zegt Segal.”

“Eventually she gives up trying to bathe beautifully in this tub. She gives up trying to feel like she’s in a painting. She doesn’t have to be beautiful in this moment. She doesn’t have to be anything, ever. (…) Nobody was ever really watching, except Phoebe. Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over.”

“We call people “dead” because we need a word for it, but “dead” just means that time has stopped moving forward for that person? You understand? No one dies, not really.” - Stephen, page 294

Quote: “why do we think nothing will ever happen unless a man singles us out? Why do we have to wait to be chosen, doing nothing, as if we were dead or something?”

This book is so all over the place :/ Thursday murder club is way better

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I defo already prefer this book over Normal People 🫣

Ohhhh might be my fave book of this series so far ngl

I wonder what role kimmie plays in the end of the book!