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"Trauma is like a season, deep & dependable, a force we board our windows against.
Even when it passes, it will wail its wild way back to our porch."

They could use phrases like "We'll take the best care of you we can," or "We'll be with you whatever comes," and they could even say, "There's still hope." But they couldn't say, You will get better. They couldn't say, You will be cured.

"Even when these explanations are cruel and dehumanizing, we embrace them-because tiger got to sleep, and bird got to land, and man got to tell himself he understand."

i knew it 😅

giving wakanda

"...happiness is never beyond reach. It's not in the distant past, nor on the horizon of the future. It's right in front of me. Like that day's beer, and today's quince tea?...I think life becomes easier knowing that happiness is not that far out of reach?"

"We become more compassionate. To read is to see things from someone else's perspective, and that naturally leads you to stop and look out for other people, rather than chase after success in the rat race. If more people read, I think the world would become a better place."

oh wow niceee

finally we learn what's the manuscript about. also, i keep forgetting it's winter haha

whattttttt

"But the truth, as I discovered, is that freedom of adulthood is oppressive in a different way. You can do anything, so rebellion has no meaning."

"But when I grew up, I discovered that adults like this game, too, though for a very different reason. They call bribes gifts, for example, and speak of corruption as the cost of doing business. The purpose of renaming actions or concepts in this way is to muddy what is crystal clear, to use ambiguous language in place of a simple word that nobody could misunderstand."

hmm "The most important thing had always been what other people thought - appearances before herself or her family."

"What's right? Ironic that all my intelligence doesn't help me solve a problem like this."

am i reading beauty and the beast? 😅

reading this because I'm so curious about the hype haha. so far i'm not sure i'm into it. we'll see! 😅

this girl....

let's gooooo

insaneeeee

"The bulk of the commentators...they wanted a woman whose eyes would tear up with gratitude, as if she owed them her victory, as if she owed them everything she had.."

"To us, a painter...from the seventeenth century are nothing more than entries in an encyclopedia. But in their day they were flesh and blood like you and I, and they poured their souls into these paintings for very deep reasons, sometimes spending fortunes on them or even risking their lives. And they never imagined that all of that would one day end up in a room in a gallery or in the corner of a basement."

"Luckily, a tip solves any problem perfectly well. When I first arrived I found it hard to understand, but now it seems to me a wonderful system: it allows the Spaniards to keep wages low, while at the same time making social hierarchies plain. Workers earn half what they should, and have to thank their employers for the other half: that way their subordinate position is reinforced." 🤔

kuya ano ba, seryoso ba hahahaha