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just once i would like to make it through an entire day without having a bruh moment

the prejudice the MC has against people who work in hr is so funny to me

I promise to write everything that needs to be written about my parents while they can still read it… Maybe writing about them like this now is an effort at cryogenic freezing… a way to mitigate anticipated grief. I want to dominate pain as if it were a wild animal. Foreshadowing the yellowing teeth… I’m unsettled by all this sweetness and peace. I can’t enjoy it. Because it always ends.

if u enter a yearning competition and u see nora flood pull up just go home she’s got it

I JUST SCREAMED OUT LOUD I KNEW ITTTT I KNEW ITTTTTT

i, too, find solace in the grocery store

…the feeling she experienced at that moment: the first real act of her entire life. and then she will wish she could say all she felt was the elation that comes with mercy and the power to act, but she knows she felt something else as well in that moment. something she neither will nor can explain. but that muddy, churning surge of envy pure love created in the lonely person has completely subsided…

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when someone falls in love, they fall in love with the combination of scents they would produce together with the other person. they are searching for a complete fusion with another element. stone, which is shaped by time, but also eroded by the motion of the sea. could that be what is haunting you as well- this primeval human longing for the ocean, for stone and rock?

a tremor runs through the cosmos when love is broken. i was carrying that quiver inside me, a wave front that, though it would vibrate every now and then, could sometimes be as powerful as an earthquake. i had been carrying it inside me for a long time, and now i understood it would not stop until soledad could forgive me…

i wonder if bora chung watched the substance. i think she’d like it

shes just saying random shit and hoping it sticks for this job interview which endears her to me. girl i have been there. love u.

“can’t you ever be serious? gran said, and if it had been a serious question i think i might have answered it, because all i want out of life is to find something worth being serious about… it’s my whole trouble, but it’s also my whole certainty— to know how serious i can be about what i love. i’m so committed to true seriousness that i spend my time clearing out rubbish.

she’s a hot mess. i see myself in her.

“Early mornings, cold showers, complete obedience to the task at hand. That was the person he brought me up to be. I needed to deny myself of everything I loved to get everything I wanted. The only problem was that I wasn’t sure what I wanted yet.”

wow i’m already crying!

ughhh

ofc this mf is named Doug 😭😭😭

i understand her, i truly do.

“i can haz boyfriend?” just made me burst out laughing. this book is what [redacted] WISHES it was

not my favorite character going out like this

“What if I dissected my feelings, pulled them apart and brutalized them so that he would know they were true? Is this enough? I'd ask. How about this? They would explode and drip over everything like bodily fluids and finally he'd be forced to look away.” From page 12.. read this part on the C train and had to take a moment

i didn’t think i could find a book that articulates some very specific feelings of dread/ despair/ anxiety/ deep sadness i have been feeling recently but here we are

uhh let me process this before i review

what the fuck

oh my god

tbh not sure how much longer i can continue this mom character reminds me of my own mom and i hate it lol

going absolutely apeshit with my highlighter