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“They ask to touch her hair and she asks to touch theirs back. This makes them all realize how strange and silly a request that is, and they giggle and become instant friends without a head petted between them.”
this healed something in me🥹

“It’s because no one for countless generations has wanted us to understand what we do. They’ve just wanted us to do it.”

“she cannot help thinking of a fusty-smelling blanket.”
kill me rn pls

my brain chemistry has just been altered.

lowkirkuenley underestimated how interesting this would be

my mommy put me on

i knew i couldn’t trust that white man

i’m so fucking excited.

im out of my reading slump but at what cost🥀

yes this series was terrible, yes i am feeling nostalgic.

“The life of the businessman is worse than that of the galley slave — his chains are golden instead of iron.” p. 1
Gold is still better than iron??

Maybe the insinuation is that gold physically outweighs iron which symbolizes the extra burden of businessman in comparison to that of the galley slave. Iron also rusts. Gold doesn’t -> The businessman’s suffering is eternal while the slave escapes it with age

“A part of me wanted to remain haughty, indignant, and remote, to see if I could make him squirm and suffer under the oppression of uncertainty as I had done for the past two weeks. But I had not the heart for it, and I assumed the position with barely a beat of reluctance.”
Lock in, omg🫩

i know i said i’d only read in german but i’m an unreliable source.

i’m only reading in German for the next month and a half cuz school is actually starting to kick my ass

let’s see if i finish this book before 2027!

linton is such a little bitchboy

“He is a dark-skinned gipsy in aspect.”

“would it not be a kindness to the country to hang him at once, before he shows his nature in acts as well as features”

“a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway.”

“I wish I had light hair and a fair skin, and was dressed and behaved as well.” -H

“Who knows but your mother an Indian queen”

and we cast… Jacob elordi?