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canadian boyband with a gay dude who’s dad was a fan of pink floyd? i love this already

feels like autumn time for some spooky books

reread time and wow how does this book have only a 3.99 average rating

time for a reread so i can get back into poetry and write more 😌

reread for juliette 😌

full cast audiobooks just hit different

when u and ur best friend share the same libby account and listen to what the other person checks out…..

"and i told myself that i would get revenge on her one day by bringing my sensitivity into the world as a gift instead of a liability."

"you see fear, certainly, but you don't know if it's of you or if it's of herself. maybe she'll say the wrong thing. maybe she will disappoint you. it's suddenly very important that you communicate to her that she is okay. that she is safe. that any sadness you feel about how she is handling this, you will make it your responsibility to correct. so you smile, and soon she smiles too. the old agreements still hold."

"you feel like you've carried a great weight up a long spiraling staircase, and now you must let it go, to release all the destructive energy it's stored, to smash the coils of staircase itself."

“you have more power than you believe…. your inability to understand that doesn’t make people less subject to it.”

"we would not have the power to hurt each other any more. we would plant a tree in the sand between us - its roots moving down, turning the liquid earth solid. it was important not to let myself think too much about these fantasies. it was important not to be openly weird with the cis woman i had used ritual magic to summon."

“why should i have to be a whole different person just to be listened to?”
this was supposed to be a fun YA contemporary break and i’m already feeling too seen 😶

“it figured that she’d avoided getting nagged to go law school only to get nagged to become a vessel for the dead” 😂

time for a comfort reread via audio

fuck yeah here we gooo

“building a word that either accommodates these tools or makes it so these tools aren’t necessary in the first place - why the need for a body that can fight wars if you build a world where there are no wars? - is a particular kind of magic, it would seem. one that still eludes us all.”

honestly so much I never noticed as an 11 yr old!
"I wondered what constant exposure to this place might do to those who worked here. Hatters went mad and painters became poisoned; laborers in cotton mills grew stunted if they did not sicken and die; this "emporium" also seemed somehow unhealthful to me. How might such a plethora of pretty things affect if not the body, then the mind?"
THE ANTICAPITALIST CRITIQUE!

“No one does. No one ever does. Silence is their way of getting by. Because if they are silent long enough then this moment of minor discomfort will pass for them. Will fold down into the landscape of the evening as if it never happened. Only Wallace will remember it.”

"This is why Wallace never tells anyone anything. This is why he keeps the truth to himself. Because other people don't know what to do with your shit. With the reality of other people's feelings. They don't know what to do when they'e heard something that does not align with their own perception of things."

“We embraced the logic of putting whiteness on a pedestal, and then forgot the traditional behaviors it demanded had nothing to do with us and everything to do with controlling us.”

“There are times like now I get this sense of the temporary. It could all blow off, and yet, the sheer land would be left underneath. Sand. Rock. The Indian black seashell bearing earth.”