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i kept thinking “wow why is this so scary” then i remember i’m reading a stephen king book

finishing a couple of chapters in this book feels like a major accomplishment lol

3 hour flight, going to attempt to read as much as i can

“and yet they were my friends, and dearest to me at the precise moment when in my heart i gave them up.” 💔

“tell octavius that if i cannot remain his friend in life, i may do so in death.”

so different from stoner but loving it so far

“i’ve visited thirty one inhabited planets in the universe, and i have studied reports on one hundred more. only on earth is there any talk of free will.”

freaky.

peter and petra, r u kidding me

“…it occurred to him that he was nearly sixty years old and that he ought to be beyond the force of such passion, of such love. but he was not beyond it, he knew, and would never be.”

gorgeous writing, but holy crap i hate edith.

bruh this is depressing.

i’m annoyed.

DNF.

“where are we?”
“where i was, when the sun came up the day the second world war ended in europe.”

🥲

i love this book

re-read.

this is kind of giving “i don’t support all women! some of you bitches are really dumb!!” meme

😭😭😭

this book continues to surprise the hell out of me 🫣

!!! i really don’t like POV changes especially when i’m over halfway through the book !!! 🫥

took a break from this one bc the font size of the physical book is too small for me 🫩 but i’m back at it again bc i really am enjoying the story

“But it is precisely such unthinking complicity that allows empires to endure. I deed, these imperial structures require it: thousands and thousands of ordinary people, innocent or not, serving— and even sacrificing themselves for— a system many of them rarely question.”

“As the historian Jill Lepore has noted, occupied peoples had “revolted again and again and again,” asking the “same question, unrelentingly: By what right are we ruled?””