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Forgot how much I loved her writing - so funny and already learning lots of fun facts

Oh heavens….. got me crying in public again. I’m jaw dropped in the coffee shop at the content in this book.

I’m confused

I’m crying in a public park.

This book is heavy - I am enthralled.

I cannot even begin to get into the complex emotions I feel around this climax. To find comfort within someone who unknowingly hurt you. All I’ll quote is “It’s OK. I understand. You’re good. Don’t you worry. You’ll be fine.”

“Meditate on the corpse until you are calm and at peace”

“I’ve been meaning to ask you: do you want to come with me?”. Maybe it’s the beer grasping its hold as I sit on this cold concrete bench in Coimbra - but the sentence felt like everything around me fell to the floor. Not loudly but with such suddenness I had to glance around to make sure the world was the same as before. So much build-up to a clear gesture of companionship.

Really interesting parallel between colonial mindset to control land/history and gay dynamics where men try to control and plunder indigenous gay men’s bodies.

“Sometimes to remember is enough” - that’s a good mantra

“He knew (had decided) that it was our last moment together. He smiled so that I could take his smile with me.” Oh my god this book is too devastating. “Desire does not go out like a match, it extinguishes slowly as it burns into ash”