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“Weeks earlier, I'd been walking down the street telling myself: If you love your work, you can't expect to also be in love. Maybe we only get a certain percentage of what we want.”
ouch

in a way lena is kind of the og sally rooney protagonist : success at a young age - eating disorder - inadvisable sexual encounters…

stopping two chapters in to watch tiny furniture and get the lore. thank god i’ve already seen girls so i don’t have to watch six seasons of television before finishing this book

the idea of reading ur mothers diary at ur age and realise she was just as messy as you… very compelling

is this dark romance or is it a regular disastrous threesome ?

« Cet échange n'a plus le goût d'interdit. C'est une communion pure, enthousiaste et consentante. »
is this really even dark romance then 😐

i hate when you're in first person pov and the character reveals something they've known since the beginning of the book to themselves like. what for

note de bas de page expliquant ce qu'est la french touch. for some reason this is making me lose it

nevermind just sea sick. unless…

oh my god she’s fucking pregnant

stop aux rats sign making an appearance yay local lore

reading a romance set at a wedding during a wedding… yay

she sounds like she’s experiencing psychosis. like huh?? doesn’t rly sound like the natalie from earlier chapters. odd.

so this doesn’t radicalise her ??

“Who is our Lord and Savior, if not the original audience member for our lives?”

amen

“The truth is that whoring yourself out can take you pretty far, if you do it with intention. Look at Mary Magdalene. Now there is a woman who understood the assignment.”
LMFAO

“(She was definitely the kind of woman who watched lesbian porn on low volume while her husband was sleeping next to her.)”

this is crazyyyyy

“If you ask me, my children are much better off in this household, where they occasionally show up in videos for my account, than in some other household where they’d be staring at an iPad all night. I mean, really.” Sympathetic cluck. “It’s an epidemic. So sad. You should look into that.”
not me reading this on an ipad…

im enjoying the story so far but the typography of the dialogue is such an eye strain omg this is why i rarely read graphic novels

what’s wrong with her? what the fuck is she doing in LA? girl you own a fucking brownstone just fucking live in it jesus christ

omfg i’m gonna kill her. girl YOU LEFT!!!!!! was he supposed to just wallow in misery until the end of his life? damn

all this time she acted like he did some unspeakable things when SHE was the on who acted crazy… damn.

oh so this is a post hamilton world… idk why i thought they were older

this guy is a chef so i just keep thinking i wish i were reading sydcarmy fanfiction…. cuz honestly the ao3 girlies write better sex scenes and aren’t afraid of the words FUCK and ASS

girl. what did he do that’s so bad that you can’t indulge in some shrimpy pasta….

“what the actual idiot is going on?”
can the 32 year old protagonist say fuck orrrr

i hate romance novel exposition so much. it’s so inelegant and clunky… but i really need this rn

deso mais une caméra épaule n’est pas un refus de « tout artifice de mise en scène » c’est un choix de mise en scène. pitié

reading slump begone

"Moi, dans dix ans, je serai… mince" mais pitié est-ce que les personnages gros ont le droit d'avoir d'autres aspirations ou.....?