Sadie Belphi (Princess Pessimism) > Recent Status Updates

Just finished Princess, Shieldmaiden, Witch, and Wolf and wow this one radicalized me. This one revolutionized me. It was so good and heartfelt and rewarding. Is it premature to say this was the best one? Like it was actually everything to me.
Can’t believe I flaked in the middle of reading last time.

Restarting this book because I sort of forgot about it and want to give it the attention it deserves.
This first story is just as good and cute as I remember. I love Pippa. I love Margo. Good for them. 10/10

What’s Wang’s wife doing right now? Like where does she THINK he is?

Get the fuck out of here Shi Qiang, we’re having a moment out here. We’re an ant in the floorboards of the church, what’s funny about that?

Wang was really like, “You’re not a part of this Sha. I’m the main character. This is my existential dread hot girl summer.”

“The Miyun Radio Astronomy Observatory had opened itself to visitors. In order to earn some extra income, Sha often played the role of tour guide or gave lectures. This was the grin he reserved for tourists, as he’d grown used to their astounding scientific illiteracy. “Mr. Wang, I take it you’re not a specialist in the field?””
This is so embarrassing send help

I’m so glad Ye Wenji got to have some happiness in her life oh my god she deserves it

Mans really going to present himself before Yang Dong d r e n c h e d in sweat smh take a shower first

How long has Wang been playing this game?

What… the fuck is happening right now? 😂

Ah dang, it’s so fricken hot out here. Better lovingly roll up my friend and place him under my arm like a sleeping bag. Same shit as always

Ye Wenji is gonna be Yang Dongs mother. Bet.

Hung out with my friends. Watched Damsel on Netflix. Spent the night at my parents house after (cause a tree fell on my house). Sat on my bed directly in front of my old bookcase. This book was staring back at me.
Apparently I picked this book out when my friend was trying to get me a present at the bookstore a year ago. And I just? Completely forgot about it?
Anyways I really loved the movie. New comfort watch.

CIRCE!!??

“You think I’m in a daze because you’re handsome. I’m in a daze because I could crush you.”

FOURTEEN YEARS!?

Not Diana dropping a slur in the middle of her feminist monologue!

"Watch for the diddles, darling." has the same energy as "Insist upon your cup of stars"

"‘I’m not at all sure that I do want to raise a family,’ Diana told her. ‘There are so many families already.’"

Ahhhhhhhhh oh my god rip Diana's mother

" It turned out to be far from the straightforward choice, to speak, or not to speak, that it had appeared. She began to have a much clearer understanding of the dilemma that Francis must have reached months before. But she would not let it be a sympathetic understanding; instead, it was a challenge: if he could not solve it, she would …."

" Even back in her schooldays Diana had accepted as an article of faith the proposition that knowledge was no less a gift of God than life itself; from which it followed that the suppression of knowledge was a sin against the light. She would no longer have used such terms to express herself, but the sense of them held firm."

" She found herself able to stand back a little so that the trees merged into a wood, and a pretty ominous-looking wood it came to seem."

" However improbable, it was not a confirmed impossibility. For good order, if for no other reason, it deserved a further test … and then another … and another …"

" not an ordinary temptation for it had none of the flavour of temptation, nor any prospect of gain, but something more like curiosity raised to a compulsion. And in the end it won."

"‘Yes,’ agreed Zephanie, ‘but he does talk about her now, and that’s much better. He likes to talk about her, even if it does make him sad. But he spends an awful lot of time just sitting and thinking, and not looking sad at all. More like somebody working out sums.’"

" For a fortnight, or more, he roamed the place like the inversion of a ghost – his body present, but his spirit elsewhere."

NOT THE WIFE DYING

‘With us, but not of us,’ Austin Daley remarked of her at the end of the second month. ‘There’s more in that girl than she is allowing to meet the eye. She has a way of smiling at the wrong things. Should be surprising, sooner or later.’