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“‘You suppose she has nearly forgotten me?' he said. 'Oh Nelly! you know she has not! You know as well as I do, that for every thought she spends on Linton, she spends a thousand on me!”

“A minute previously she was violent; now, supported on one arm, and not noticing my refusal to obey her, she seemed to find childish diversion in pulling the feathers from the rents she had just made, and ranging them on the sheet according to their different species: her mind had strayed to other associations. "That's a turkey's,' she murmured to herself; 'and this is a wildduck's; and this is a pigeon's.”

“…he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same…”

“To preserve the values of the civilized world, it is necessary to set fire to a library. To blow up a mosque…To dress up in the lingerie of women who fled and then take pictures…To loot jewelry, art, banks, food. To arrest children for picking vegetables. To shoot children for throwing stones... To break a man's teeth and shove a toilet brush in his mouth…Otherwise, the uncivilized world might win.”

“It is a reminder that, in times like these, one remarkable difference between the modern Western conservative and their liberal counterpart is that the former will gleefully sign their name on the side of the bomb while the latter will just sheepishly initial it.”

who thinks I will be a puddle of tears by the time I finish reading this?

🙋🏻‍♀️

life’s too short to read cringey books 🫶

DNF

now why on earth would you type your feelings into email drafts??? put that sh*t in your notes app like a normal person

time of death: 6:30pm June 30th, 2026

catch this on my DNF shelf in a week when I inevitably give up on it (and myself) 🫩

"But I'm really happy I'm not alone. There's a reason people write so many love songs, Em. Life is better with someone by your side."