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“You couldn't kill yourself with a Baby Belling I shouldn't think because as far as I know they are all powered by electricity and no doubt this specification was utterly deliberate because Belling would have been quite aware of the sorts of customers their product would invariably cater to and the sorts of morbid tendencies these people might brood over and wish to act upon and finally bring to completion.”

I love a writer having fun:

“And yet, how to reconcile such a fortunate and encouraging record with the aforementioned assertion that I was, in the most part, quite unable to endure advances made by any one of these extraordinary men until I had achieved a precise tone of inebriety?”

This is the shit

¿Qué clase de arte era el que ella hacía? El arte de la paciencia, el arte de no matar a nadie estando subordinada a las órdenes de un hombre.

Que se las arreglen como puedan, dijo el comandante, recurriendo, ante la falta de algo mejor, a una de las frases que componen la panacea universal, estando a la cabeza, como ejemplo perfecto de la más descarada hipocresía personal y social, esa que recomienda paciencia al pobre al que se acaba de negar una limosna.

Esto es buenísimo!

“Lo que no está bien, lo confesamos, es que, en situación tan delicada como ésta, alguien venga y se ponga a sacarle lustre a la prosa para añadirle algunos reflejos poéticos sin asomo de originalidad.”

When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.
But the choice to save yourself can itself be deadly.

I was promised darkness and it’s being delivered

The writing is not great but the story is pretty cool

"I don't read very well. So I don't think I think very well either."

She’s got a point. Also, this book is good, actually?

I may have fallen for a red herring and now I feel stupid. Either that or the author is gaslighting me. Anyway I’m here for it.

I should be reading this slowly but it’s fascinating and can’t bring myself to slow down

It went from wildly imaginative to astonishingly bad in 20 pages

This is bananas and I love it

Top notch writing

I genuinely wonder if straight folks can pick up all the sexual innuendos in this book

I haven’t had goosebumps like these in years

I’m getting to meet Bradbury at his most disturbing and I’m loving it

Esto me está dando absolutamente igual

‘I am drawn here across London to a
particular spot, to a particular place, not to see you or you or you, but to light my fire at the general blaze of you who live wholly, indivisibly and without caring.’

But say I could repent and could obtain
By act of grace my former state; how soon
Would heighth recall high thoughts, how soon unsay
What feigned submission swore; ease would recant
Vows made in pain, as violent and void.