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Re-reading this while I'm in NYC this week, so so excited

May this life never find me

So cool to be reading this a few weeks before going to New York City for the first time!

"The city did that to you. It made you love and hate in equal parts. You loved all the things the city could afford-its museums and restaurants and music and art, its lights and life and possibility. But that word, afford, was key. It was a place that made you want."

Of courseeeee Daphne is a Cancer, I knew it

Audiobook re-read before my girlfriend and I go see Brandi next week!

yeah i love these guys

"But there was nothing I wanted without feeling ashamed I wanted it."

The characters in this book are so deeply insufferable I cannot

this is sooooooo good

The times I've gasped in public reading this so far is immeasurable.

I'm addicted, literally all I think about the past few days is this book and when I can find time to read more of it.

"It was the first time in my tiny life that it felt like the world could end, and instead of doing anything about it, I was busy falling in love."

the sunset essay :')

reading this while i'm stupidly in love is sooooo fun, kicking my little feet!!!

being this down bad for your first kiss @ 13 is insane actually

Enjoying the conversation about the connotations and importance of the word "lesbian"! I do fear these characters are insufferable to me but there are some bright spots, I'm having fun at least!

First chapter is an insane piece of work, just like some of the best writing I've ever encountered

loooooove starting a book and kind of immediately knowing it might be my favorite of the year

oh and i'm hooked...

"And it may seem now like it's someone else's children, but there's no such thing as someone else's children."

"How many would want to believe, as so much of the culture here has always strained to believe, that they side with the underdog, the downtrodden who refuses to give up, the rebel in the face of the empire? And then, should the scenes be transposed back to the unforgiving reality of the world as it is, how many...would just as instinctively retreat into the comforting fold of the empire?"

"Whose nonexistence is necessary to the self-conception of this place, and how uncontrollable is the rage whenever that nonexistence is violated?"

obsessed with the writing style so far

the moment everyone has been waiting for for me (by everyone i mean zach and bailey)

“the daylight was thin, winter coming down like the lid on an old pot”

oh my god this poor girl

at work thinking only about this book and how i'm gonna read it the second i'm off

part 4, things are getting intense!