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Such a fascinating book!

Let's see it I finally manage to finish a novel in Romanian 😅

Ohhh so good I really don't wanna stop but I am sick and need to go to bed 😪

Let's see if we can make it through a second read...

"You have tasted of death now," said the Old Man. "Is it good?"
"It is good," said Mossy. "It is better than life."
"No," said the Old Man: "it is only more life.--your feet will make no holes in the water now."

"It don't take much to hold a man together. A man can lose a whole lot, might look to everybody else that he done lost so much that he ought to want to be dead, but he can keep on--he can even die with his head up, hell, as long as he got that one thing. That one thing is him, David, who he is inside--and, son, I don't believe no man ever got to that without somebody loved him"

From the preface:
"not even France could compensate for some of the things I knew and felt that I was losing… They did not know enough about me to be able to correct me." -xiii
"all I had, in a word, was me, and I was forced to insist on this me with all the energy I had" -xiv

I am loving this book so much!!!!