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my dumbass is struggling to finish this after seeing the bbc show eight times, i got sick of the story

1 Samuel 2:9 ESV
[9] “He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness, for not by might shall a man prevail."

we need people praying this shit over Trump that man needs to GO

"...neither rational happiness nor worldly prosperity, could be justly expected for her sister..."

lydia's fate is genuinely a tragedy :(

And the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, “No, my brothers, do not act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, do not do this vile thing. Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine. Let me bring them out now. Violate them and do with them what seems good to you, but against this man do not do this outrageous thing.”

ok so its evil to rape a man but not women?

"And he said to them, “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle.” And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck down thirty men of the town and took their spoil..."

ah yes the spirit of the lord came upon a man who called a woman a heifer and then beat up thirty men and robbed them of their clothes. what an upstanding guy

Judges 11:12-13 NRSVUE
Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites and said, “What is there between you and me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?” The king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel, on coming from Egypt, took away my land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now, therefore, restore it peaceably.”

colonizerssssssss

if I have to read the word oriental one more time im gonna start shooting

"Guido tossed the pack of cigarettes into the river..." JAIL. TIME.

I do not give one singular f about any of these people

fuuuuuck :(

"How despicably have I acted!" she cried--"I, who have prided myself on my discernment!"

the 1995 BBC version, while the superior adaptation, did miss this part of the book, in which Lizzy realizes the extent of her own blindness towards wickham's behavior

murky's lingo is classic

there is so much goddamn misogyny in this book

"Straight people, he thinks, probably don't spend this much time convincing themselves they're straight."

RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

yes im rereading this bullshit instead of reading literally any of my tbr what about it

i feel dumb as shit reading this but i am determined to trudge onwards

"As he said this, she could easily see that he had no doubt of a favorable answer. He spoke of apprehension and anxiety, but his countenance expressed real security."

how fucking delicious it is that this man of wealth and power, who is so certain of himself, gets brought low by a woman of little consequence

"So what if I've been eating more than usual? Food is one of the only things these days that makes me feel anything worth feeling. When I eat, I'm not guilty, or depressed, or angry. Eating is the only time I really get to just exist without thinking."

FUCKKKKKKKKKKK

this is breakinggggg my heart. once the illness has its claws in you its hard to see any point to anything

good god.

this book is going to single-handedly put me in a reading slump 💔💔

oh nooooooooo

"Ilya rocked them a bit, gently, from side to side, and enjoyed the quiet. He closed his eyes and focused on how good it felt to be with Shane, alone in the dark, and tried not to wish it could be same in the light."

I AM UNWELL