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Interesting how there are nine stages to reach Mictlan & there are nine levels of hell 🧐

lol I love old people talking about their old days and talking shit about their friends & family 😂😂

‘“…you ever meet anyone with good sense who had an interesting story to tell? Of course not. That’s ’cause with good sense ain’t got the kind of bad sense it takes to live the kind of life that leads to anything interesting .

Mark Twain’s version vs this one lol even the pictures have versions!

"It is in the empire’s interest, they would have told him, to keep the future empress happy."

Keshe Chow. The Girl With No Reflection (Kindle Location 121). Kindle Edition.

“Color of Hallie Berry” wtf 😂

Does anyone else get Beauty & the Beast Vibes?

“So if you wonder why Americans are so obese, consider the fact that waitresses both express their humanity and earn their tips through the covert distribution of fats.”

😅

“The employers’ insurance policy against the relentless turnover of the low-wage workforce.”

— lol, SBUX does this 👀

“Three days go by like this and, to my chagrin, no one from the approximately twenty places at which I’ve applied calls me for an interview.”

— why does this quote sound so familiar 🙃

“There was always, of course, the difference that only I knew—that I wasn’t working for money… This deception, symbolized by the laptop that provided a link to my past and future, bothered me, at least in the case of the people I cared about and wanted to know better.”

“I had no intention of going hungry.”

She actually set rules for herself:
1. Not search for jobs in her field/education
2. Take the highest paying job & hold it
3. Find cheapest accommodations

But would be willing to break them.

This is important because, why these 3 rules?

“Encasing poor people in sterile categories—“the homeless,” “welfare recipients”— allows us to hold them at a cool distance.”

“Susan Sontag was right when she said that we only deplete the world when we try to interpret it. Our rationalizations of poverty allow us to domesticate it, to calm it in the confines of our theories and tropes. It’s safer that way. It allows us to continue ignoring poverty not because it’s hidden from view but because when we see it, we blunt our curiosity and empathy with ready-made explanations.”

🥲

“If others pull you from the darkness, it’s because they believe your life is worth living.

Don’t push them away because you don’t feel like you deserve it.

Keep the close.

And show them what you can do.”

“The key to enchanting a living thing is consent.”

“To enchant something, you coerce a spirit into an object.
It works because the object doesn’t have a spirit to push the intruding spirit out.
Living things have spirits.”

“Just because it’s in a book doesn’t mean it’s true.”

She has a literal bird as an alarm 😂

I started listening to the audio, but quickly went to book format. This one feels like a physical read

“The house unfolded into view, giving the illusion of a pop-up children’s book, the ancient parapets jutting uncomfortably against failing winter light”

“If book eaters could write, they wouldn’t need other people’s books.”

“Non-Cousin people existed in the world, humans, who ate animal flesh & dirty plants they plucked from soil.”

“Biblichor” = the smell of very old books according to Uncle Aike

-ichor = Greek for what the “godly” version of blood

“Blood of the books” 🧐🤯