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Snaaaaart så

Japp det här lär ta ett tag

Lyssnar på ljudboken med Andy Serkis som uppläsare 🤩🤩 väldigt mysig

Vet inte om det här kommer få mig att känna mig mer påläst eller mer hopplös men vi kör antar jag 🫩

Ska säga upp mig så att jag kan stanna hemma och läsa istället

Hjälp rymdmatte 😣😣

“Remember, that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Everywhere I see is bliss, from which I alone is irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.” :(

As we walked home, I knew from far away the trees looked nice, the grass looked green, and we looked like just a couple of boys walking home, armed with Midwest love and Bible Belt morals. But up close, the trees were scorched, the grass was dead, and the boys were on the verge of tears with the belt of those morals tightened around their necks, threatening to hang them if they dared step off the stool of masculinity

“I thought, hell, this girl really wants to marry me. Why not give it a try? Maybe her love would be enough to paradise the hell. But then I realized, I couldn’t use her like that. Like a shield in the fray. She deserved to marry a man who loved her for all the things she was and not for all the armor she could be.”

“her features reached home to their bones” …

“[…] as I yelled for everyone I used to know. Hell, I even yelled my own name. […] but the biggest reply of all was silence. No one yelled back to me. No one said ‘Hey, we’re here in Breathed. Come back now. It’s all okay. You can come back. It’s just fine.’ I waited for all the familiar voices to say just this, but I am the unanswered man. I am the inside of silence.”

“Yes, people age horribly. They suffer strokes. Their bodies and brains fall apart. But the male ego? Firmly intact until the bitter end.”

“‘Well, I’m sure it was all exactly as playful as you imagine and not at all some kind of ongoing experiment to indoctrinate you into their cult of homicidial academia.’” Sounds about right

“We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was called. I learned from him that often contradictions is the clearest way to truth.”

“Then I heard Amaka’s sobbing. It was loud and throaty; she laughed the way she cried. She had not learned the art of silent crying; she had not needed to.”

“It occured to me then that to be a child is to know the cradle rocks both toward the parent and away from them. That is the ebb and flow of life, swinging toward and away from one another, perhaps so we build up the strength for that one moment we will be rocked so far away, the person we love the most is gone by the time we return.”

“Hungered, I wrote. I came to dislike my bed and the sleep that kept me from pouring myself upon the page. Anguish was my subject, but so, too, was love. My dialogue became an insanity that then evolved into a metamorphosis of soul. Risen against the odds, if only to oppose and defy the suffering, I plotted tales that commanded myself to survive.”

“My sister was just another girl doomed by politics and ancestral texts that say a girl’s destiny is to be wholesome, obedient, and quietly attractive, but invisible when need be. Nailed to the cross of her own gender, a girl finds herself between the mother and the prehistoric rib, where there’s little space to be anything other than a daughter who lives alongside sons but is not equal to them.”

”Their whole marriage, she had submitted to other people’s versions of her, retreating into the shape of their desires. She thought of Frank’s vow on their wedding day. ‘When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light.’ Now she had completed that process on her own. She had met the darkest part of herself and created this.”

”’Nobody sees you like that, Santiago. Except, maybe, you.’”

”I remember that life in that room seemed to be occuring beneath the sea, time flowed past indifferently above us, hours and days had no meaning. In the beginning our life together held a joy and amazement which was newborn every day.”

”People who live on the hills sleep so close to the stars they forget those of us who live too much on earth.” ❤️‍🩹