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finishing this on safari b/c i lost my book on the plane in chicago smh

“Would not twenty years of continual
bondage crush him utterly? Water wears out a stone. And why, why should he live after that? Why should he go now when he knew that it would be so? It was the hundredth time perhaps that he had asked himself that question since the previous evening, but still he went.”

“i’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell / to die upon the hand i love so well” (2.1.250-251).

tea

“Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind; / And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind”

um are you KIDDING ?? i’m sat

trying to increase my reading pace i’ve been slow ash this year

“life is only given to me once and i shall never have it again; i dont want to wait for ‘the happiness of all.’ i want to live myself, or else better not live at all”

“crime is a protest against the abnormality of the social organization”

“they insist on complete absence of individualism and that’s just what they relish! not to be themselves, to be as unlike themselves as they can. that’s what they regard as the highest point of progress”

excited to reread

“you can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. you can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”

less than a hundo left ; this book has actually been pleasantly surprising me

“we are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves” — françois de la rochefoucauld

i love the turn this has taken with boris interestingly enough that despite the squalor and chaos that comes with his lifestyle that theo is seemingly happier than in new york. does he feel more than friendly for him ??

theo is moving to vegas ! very curious to see where this the story is going

poor theo navigating life in between his mother’s death , an absent father , and awkward temporary placement with a childhood best friend that he isn’t close with ; i can feel his anxiety through the pages !

i’m loving that the setting is new york city ; nervous to read about theo’s mom’s impending death