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themes i’m noticing across the two sally rooney books i’ve read: age gap + polyamory

i like that thorne is like. the way that he is but he’s not actually a creep that would take advantage of cress

the absolute britishisms just LEAP out of the page at me in this 1 page conversation

kissing to pass escape tools and information for espionage is a lost art

oh how i adore thorne so much

i completely forgot just how sweet Wolf is

i can’t remember if i was this much of a kai fan as a kid but i loveeeeee kai he’s the sweetest boy ever and so selfless and noble what a king

I LOVE KAI OH MY GODDDDD I LOVE NOBLE HEROES

truly one of the best things about this series compared to a lot of modern romanceslop is that the love interests are actually characters and have distinct personalities and motivations like i freaking love kai i love his combativeness and subtle charm like its so much more fun than infuriatingly handsome blah blah blah

i freaking love forgetting things. the way i gasped and was gagged once again by the reveal of the dr's daughter

god i love this fucking series so much like this reminds me why i love writing and why it’s so fun to create

i feel like all my agony towards this book just hits with delayed impact like i’m gathering little bits of sadness as i go and then it swells with water suddenly and then im ruined

my ghost is in pieces :(

i continue to be devastated over and over by the smallness of the world. sony has my entire heart bc he reminds me of my brother

i think it’s so silly that the scenes set in the past are present tense but the scenes set in the present are in past tense

grazina makes my heart ache 10,000 ways

we murder ourselves by remembering

kinda feeling like ocean vuong’s favorite verb in this book is “rinsed”

the contrast between ocean vuong’s writing style and sally rooney’s writing style is so funny

PANDEMIC JUMPSCARE AGAIN

covid mention jumpscare wtf

feeling joyful and hissing about this logic puzzle section. reminds me of college

i’m dead peter is actually such a hypocrite. “i’m not 36 am i?” BRO UR 32

i can’t help but wonder if a lot of litfic is just about beautiful people

dialogue with no quotes is so fucking sexy

the smallness of this book and how gut wrenching it is so magnificent. “do you want more ice” “no no. sit and watch the end of the game” and “goodbye tadpoles” “goodbye toad” i’m sick to my stomach

i sincerely despise the accent the narrator puts on for hazel

it genuinely upsets me that like leo is kinda just a punching bag rn

jason/percy bromance still remains as my favorite thing in the world

it makes me so happy that percy is consistently honorable and loyal and determined like he was my role model growing up