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I’m kind of like ok boys a little dramatic for 30 pgs in but the line “Paul could only forgive himself for keeping a journal if he told himself he was documenting history” is a really great character line

“I wouldn’t want to be faster / or greener than now if you were with me O you / were the best of all my days” back to the acknowledgments in Diane’s sonnets to Mikel back to “beautiful things…passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next.”
So it’s always back to the last page of the Goldfinch for me. sue me

Started flipping through this in the library and was about to cry so that’s awesome

this writing is delicious. Another excellent rec by una

TRUE DETECTIVE MENTION !!!!!

this book is wild lol. loving how he’s playing w structure and narration

one day I walked into class and said that lately I had been trimming my split ends one by one with scissors when I was supposed to be doing workshop notes and Mac was like oh you gotta read this book you’ll REALLY like it and she was right. btw. Frank and Doors and being too aware of jeans

“Take what you can’t say and put it into someone’s mouth. Every last mile of it. Get used to talking with your hands and the cover story writes itself. All magic is distraction, a misdirection. The performative self: it flutters in the wind. I would like it if, for just a couple days, everyone would pretend that they still love me.” TAKE WHAT YOU CAN’T SAY AND PUT IT INTO SOMEONE’S MOUTH!!!

I got so impatient waiting for this from the library that I broke down and bought it for myself. now I can finally hold “Cover Story” in my hands

“Marie knows that harming someone is one of the fastest ways to become permanent in them.”

“They made my own life drown me.”

I’m reading this “Not my style” in a Samantha Jones voice. I hope that’s intended

Mark Renton IS Carrie Bradshaw, thank god someone said it

“I have met men, not just in Ireland, who are happy to say that they don’t read women. They. Just. Can’t.” screaming bc Anne is reading my mind with this essay

“I must not spend the Summer alone, taking strange walks and trying to electrocute myself.” Words to live by

“It’s so silly that we have become pen pals when we spend all day together…. Maria told me recently that she wishes somebody would take the time to write her letters. She suggested we all start writing to each other. That would be very nice, but I’m not about to start writing six letters a night to people I see every day. It’s only special when it’s for her.”

“Which just goes to show how you mustn’t trust a scrupulous realism, that sometimes sloppy fantasy comes nearer the true state of things.” this just made me so sick

this is breaking my heart tbh

Absolutely loving so far

“You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.” ohhhhhhhhhhhh ok crying

“You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.” save me Rilke save me

“It was like God had put his hand on my head and filled me with the most intense desire I had ever felt, not desire for another person, but desire to bring something into being that had never existed before.”
immediately stand by me “It’s like God gave you something, man. All those stories that you can make up. And he said: This is what we got for you, kid, try not to lose it.”

what does it mean to abhor the contemporary novel and then continue writing contemporary novels. concerning

reading this rn bc I need something familiar enough but nothing that I’ve already read and uhhh she’s just talking about problems with Dublin. excuse me sally can we do this later

I thought this could help me and instead I feel so so so sick