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‘’why do you trust me?’ ‘baby, i hope i never have to ask myself that question’’

‘who had shown him the sky, the blue of it, which was like her mothers ribbons, so that when he looked at it, it had no distance, no remoteness, but was intimate, familiar, like a room that he lived, a place where he belonged.’

wtf

‘love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it give birth to visions remains among the sharpest expressions of self interest. Not until it has passed through long servitude, through its own self hatred, through mockery, great doubts, can it take its place among the loyalties. Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell of less of love than the child that lost their dog yesterday’

heartfelt

‘my faltering and groping, search for any and every means of expression, is a sort of divine stuttering. I am dazzled by the glorious collapse of the world!’

‘he talked well; but, but the cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.’

‘’you really are in a bad way. You don’t know the value of money, you live hard, you’ll knock up one of these days, and be ill and poor; you really ought to think about a nurse’’ - mr. stryver to Sydney his friend

i love Dickens. This dialogue is perfectly timed, as seems every sentence. the previous scene depicted genuine love and then showing this man’s true disconnect and bad intentions.

‘the owl mad a noise with very little resemblance in it to the noise conventionally assigned to the owl by men-poets. But it is the obstinate custom of such creatures hardly ever to say what is set down for them.’

‘’ Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The darn deference of fear and slavery, my friend’ said the Marquis ‘will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof’, looking up to it, ‘shuts out the sky’’

very rich guy talking to his nephew about how to live the way they do.

“‘The Centre of Truth’: holding that Man had got out of the Centre of Truth-which did not need much demonstration-but had not got out of the Circumference, and he was to be kept from flying out of the Circumference, and was even to be shoved back into the Center, by fasting and seeing if spirits… Much discoursing with spirits went on-and it did a world of good which never became manifest.”

‘A good reason for taking to a man, that he shows you what you have fallen away from, and what you might have been! … Come on, and have it out in plain words! You hate that fellow.’

mr. darnay talking to himself

‘As an emotion of the mind will express itself through any covering of the body, so the paleness of which his situation engendered came through the brown upon his cheek, showing the soul to be stronger than the sun’

‘the Old Bailey [a prison] was a choice illustration of the precept, that “Whatever is is right;” an aphorism that would be as final as it is lazy, did not include the troublesome consequences, that nothing that ever was, was wrong’

very powerful quote n he’s also directly calling out pope Alexander. what crimes under Heaven’s law do i excuse bc it is how it is. what does one do

—‘the old inquiry:

‘i hope you care to be recalled to life?’
And the old answer:
‘i can’t say’ ‘

‘A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other’

so far many wonderful facts to reflect upon. i love Dickens so far. he uses beautiful language and paints pictures in my mind. he cared deeply about what he wrote that’s obvious.

‘i may not have meaning but it is the same lack of meaning that the pulsing vein has’

i want thus page tattooed on my body. very good so far <3 she criticizes her writing style but i’m mesmerized

‘throwbacks to domesticity’

this book often makes me stop to ponder. in what ways are past norms affecting societal function? my interpersonal relationships? my individual choices? and where are we trying to go? what do we do with all of this? who am i trying to be?

reading this while elon is performing a digital coup on the us government is intense. this could happen anytime.
i just finished the part where Compubank takes all the banks’ money, then they cut off women’s access and force them to leave their jobs so they rely on men. this book is so good because it’s so painfully possible and relatable