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It’s been 7 years since I first read this book (in my first semester of college) and I remember loving it but don’t remember a single thing about it. Well about 40 pages ago I remembered and I’m not prepared for the emotional damage.

Nothing has happened except me relating in a horrible way to the social anxiety

I’m hanging on every word of this shit the climax of a plot has never climaxed quite like this one

I take it back I’m super horrified again and even more confused now

much less weird now but not bc it’s any less unnatural or disgusting but simply because I’m becoming enamored with the narration and how complex each individual character is

I’m really uncomfortable but want to keep reading :/

“Some part of me was attempting to resist the way I’d learned to conflate beauty with specialness and with love. No thanks, I’d think. I don’t want whatever it is they’re trying to offer. I don’t want their mirror. I don’t want that “You’re the most beautiful” kind of love.”