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"Even Millicent's stupidity was attractive. In the deepest stupidity there is a kind of dizzying, whirlpool attraction, like death: the pull of the vacuum."

"'In London November isn't a month,' he said. 'It's a state of mind.'"

"'I was weary to death, as weary as only a twenty-year-old can be, and indeed I yearned for the secret of death, longed for the dark delirium. But when the feeling of mortality inspired by the wine began to wear off, I didn't actually want to die.'"

"I am, after all, your dear friend. Your valuable friendship is too important to me to disappoint you, dear friend." I love Yennefer so much.

I really like Yarpen and hope he sticks around. Triss, on the other hand, can't bugger off fast enough... ugh.

"It isn't very hard to describe our school. It was one among hundreds—maybe even thousands—of poor schools in Indonesia that, if bumped by a frenzied goat preparing to mate, would collapse and fall to pieces."

"'Do you want to know? It will do you no good. It will not make you happy. It will not make one moment if what is to come easier on you. But ask me, and I will give it to you.'"

I'm at that point in reading a book you don't like where every little thing just pisses you off.

Geralt's conversations with Ciri are so adorable.

There are way too many characters in this book. Very difficult remembering who's who.

"'She's disgraced our name,' he said. 'She's disgraced it twice over.'

[...] 'That's once too often, isn't it really,'" My god I love Dave.

"The distance between those we know best and their art is a curiously immeasurable one."

The amount of men attempting to use Goodreads as a dating app is so baffling to me.

Pretty sure I know exactly where this is going.

I find this book funny and interesting, but it might be the slowest I've read anything. Reading a narrator who is almost pathologically perceptive of every detail in his environment and life is really tiring; I only get through a few pages at a time.

Adopting twenty-two kids because "it's almost like a high"... I've been withholding judgment of the wacky actions of the people profiled in this book, but this couple is grotesque.

"If every good act is required, then none is praiseworthy. There is no more virtue—only duty and vice."

I was wondering how long it'd be until "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" showed up...

My reading has stalled on this because I kept rolling my eyes so hard at "The War Lovers" that they were in danger of popping out of my head. I'll give it another shot soon and see if the story improves.

"Centuries ago, violent sexual crimes committed against women were considered crimes against their husbands—a harming of their property, a stain on their honor. In contexts where rape was perceived as affecting men by proxy, it was often addressed with more gravity than it is now."

"The more he thought about marriage, the more attractive it became. Whatever his fortune, whatever the cut of his garment, there would always be the hem—the tuck and fold that hid his raveling edges..."

"'Yeah? Well? Don't that count? Ain't that love?'"

"'If you ever lied to me, it was long ago, and in another country.'"

First book I've downloaded on my Kindle and I finally feel like I'm making progress—maybe because I can't see how long it is. Really enjoying this though and hoping to finish in a week or two!

Oh my god this "white-ache" episode is incredible.

"a chord trembles light from belly to belly it shakes in the wind but can't be broken oh girl I choose you see?"

"'...if the Negro is so distinctly inferior, it is a strange thing to me that it takes such tremendous effort on the part of the white man to make him realize it, and to keep him in the same place into which inferior men naturally fall.'"

"I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them."

"Follow me, all ye whom the 'pangs of despised love' or the slights of friends keep within doors,—follow me far from the meannesses and unkindnesses of men. Be ye unhappy, sick, or weary, follow me. Ye idle ones, arouse ye, one and all. ...amiable anchorites of an evening’s duration, who renounce the world for your boudoir,—come, and be led by me to banish these dark thoughts..."

Who describes somebody's forehead as "orthodox"??? I hate it here