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« - I wish to choose my fate and know something of human affairs beyond what other people think it compatible with propriety to tell me.
- I shall be delighted to help you in any way in my power.
- The best way to help me will be to put as many hundred miles of sea between us as possible.
- One would think you were going to commit some atrocity!
- I wish to be free even to do that if the fancy takes me. »

LMAO

« - I refused a proposal of marriage last week. I was offered a great position and a great fortune by a person whom I like extremely.
- I’m glad he’s disappointed.
- Well then, as companions in this misfortune, make the best of it. »

LMAO SHE’S SAVAGE

« - I don’t need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself.
- Find out how to live alone? I wish that, when you have, you’d teach me.
She looked at him a moment, then with a quick smile:
- Oh, YOU ought to marry. »

Yes please put that stalker creep back in his place, I love this woman

« I really don’t want to marry, or to talk about it at all. I shall probably never do it. I’ve a perfect right to feel that way, and it’s no kindness to a woman to press her so hard, to urge her against her will. I can’t marry you simply to please you. »

This is a female character written by a man more than a century ago, so men today have absolutely no excuse for not understanding that no means no.

Okay but how many audio narrators actually SING when songs are mentioned? And she’s really good at it too, I’m a fan

« I’ve got a fear in my heart that she’s going to marry one of these fell Europeans, and I want to prevent it. »
« Ah, I see. And to prevent it you want me to step in and marry her? »
« Not quite; that remedy would be as bad as the disease. »
LMAO THE BURN

« Hana ignored Keishi, her eyes fixed on her grandmother [who] sat across from her. » So uhm where is Keishi actually sitting? Bc just a paragraph ago he was reaching for her hand from across the table (that was also very creepy, dude’s known her for 3 hours and keeps initiating skin contact with her while she’s rejecting him)

« Stars were interesting but did not hold his attention. » DID THE AUTHOR ALREADY FORGET THAT HER CHARACTER STUDIES NEUTRINOS?? AT THE SUPER-K OBSERVATORY WHICH SPECIFICALLY STUDIES SOLAR NEUTRINOS AND SUPERNOVAE?? THE SUN IS A STAR?? It’s literally the only character trait she gave him and she has already contradicted it 💀

KEISHIN IS SUCH A CREEP (he’s supposed to be the love interest so I’m doomed)

« Things don’t have to make sense for them to be real. » you know the author knows nothing about science when her cliché physicist character doesn’t bring up quantum mechanics as an example in this conversation lmao

« Had we been engineered better, we would’ve been able to see all the flickering remnants of the Big Bang that lit up the night. » That’s not how evolution works. Seeing the cosmic microwave background of the universe doesn’t give us any survival advantage so we wouldn’t have been engineered any « better », we would’ve just been engineered « differently » (and it would’ve been useless)

The least realistic thing here is an astrophysicist coming to the conclusion that « science isn’t real. » No scientist would EVER say that, they would instead come up with new theories to explain these phenomenons and expand our knowledge because that’s what science is all about. If we said science is not real as soon as something contradicts current theories then science would just… stop existing.

Omg the audio narrator is one of the best I’ve ever listened to imma need to listen to all the books she’s narrated idec what they’re about

America is so weird, there are preachers using snakes?? I read abt it in The Little Friend and thought maybe it was some weird local cult but apparently it’s general knowledge and it’s just a thing there? Like wtf? Atp the US is just a social experiment set up by some aliens and you can’t convince me otherwise

Comment savoir si un livre a été écrit par un.e français.e entre 1650-1750 ?
« Ce prince parfaitement bien fait avait eu peu d’égaux dans le printemps de son âge. »
La Belle et la Bête ou La Princesse de Clèves c’est du pareil au même

Idk I’m kinda loosing interest, the writing is very dry

Y’a une fée pédophile qui veut épouser le prince (15 ans) qu’elle a élevé COMME UNE MÈRE depuis sa naissance, et la reine s’oppose au mariage pas parce qu’ils ont genre 80 ans de différence d’âge mais parce que la fée est moche jpp

La Belle et la Bête sont cousins mdrr Disney nous avait caché ça

It’s good so far but istg if the author adds a cheating storyline (which it’s starting to look like) I’m gonna be mad, can no one write a good thriller without cheaters?

I’m definitely way out of my comfort zone genre-wise

Walmart sells caskets? ⚰️

« First, I got myself born. A decent crowd was on hand to watch. » I already know this is going to be a new favorite when it starts like that.

Lmao not the lady « purring » sexily at the prince and he’s just like « wtf are you choking? » SJM should take notes