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“A diva like MacArthur wanted no Washington political diva, especially one from the other party, to share his applause.”

“If rain fell at Logan we could find sun at Dulles." 🙂‍↕️

Getting to the journal portion after having read her unabridged journals a few years ago… it’s like reconnecting with an old friend wow

“But what you really hate is the fact that in the middle of two catastrophic wars, it is easier to hold a job fake-fiddling, playing calming music for Americans while Bagdad burns, than it is to get a job reporting form the middel of the blaze.”

It took over 350 pages no Noah but at least we got this line: “You should’ve seen the way he was looking at you… like you’re the ocean and he’s desperate to drown.”

I’m being so serious when I say I want what Beauvoir and Sartre had

Brain chemistry is being altered

What I have to do as I wait for ep 3 😫

The last two pages in the LA chapter… the only time I really understand the appeal of this genre

Okay she went clubbing in Mexico City so she didn’t completely waste those 300 years

“Books… are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one.” Re-reading and going to pretend Addie travels to more than Europe & America with her three centuries of life

Just read the most difficult book I’ve ever read so don’t mind if I go back to some ya for comfort

“Most women do not want to deal with male pain if it interferes with the satisfaction of female desire.”

Already taking the same issue I did with All About Love. I’m hating the “female” and “male” terminology, and how hooks makes such bold claims without any support.

“But the question now—now that she was no longer motivated by the instinctive fear of death, now that she had no urgent reason to keep running—was what came next. She had a bigger problem on her hands now, which was the point of living. Living meant a future meant some teleological end, but Alice could not figure out what on earth she was going on for.”

Feeling like 5 stars

“But they were all the weird ones here. And here no one punished you for caring too much, thinking too deeply. Here you could jump down any rabbit hole you liked, and everyone would tunnel down with you.”

“Wickedness felt better when you had a coconspirator; otherwise it was just you and your conscience.”

Combination PJO, Babel and all the texts/philosophers Kuang mentions