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These people are insufferable lmao

I want to whale on Perry Gillis until he stops moving.

[Even though I looked up which wail/wale/whale to use, the more I look at it the less right it looks.]

This book is hitting way too close to home in several ways. 😭

The Camp At Cutthroat Lake 4✨ Makes me nostalgic for fishing with my dad. Jack's an unnecessarily jealous nasty lil shit.

“...unlike after the last world war, there seemed to be a greater willingness in the United States to acknowledge the need for a global outlook rather than a purely national one."

Well, so much for that.

“Stateside, the U.S. government warned Americans about enemy agents spreading false rumors. Still, many people believed the rumors and perpetuated them, “some innocently and some maliciously,”41 noted a North Carolina newspaper.

I see nothing has changed.

“This time, people should not rely solely on the work of their leaders at the peace table. “If democracy is to prove itself, the voice of the people must be more articulate. Every person must take full responsibility in making the leaders conscious of the wishes of the people..."

“If we ever again are guilty of leaving people without the best possible equipment in adequate amounts, in a world which requires such equipment, then somehow we should make it a prerequisite that the older people who are responsible are promptly sent out to die in these frontier battles. Why should the young always be expendable for the mistakes of the old?"

"Hey I don't mind taking a turn at the cooking, I'm just not very good at it." Bruh. My Man. Brochacho. GUESS HOW YOU GET GOOD AT IT?

Why would you pull up in the middle of the night and throw pebbles at windows when a house is on fire instead of just leaning on your horn to wake people up 😭

(my outside book that I started reading last summer)

(This is my living room book and I only read a couple pages at a time. It's been 2-3 months 🤭)

This is taking me forever, not because it's bad- it's actually good, but I'm just not in a serious nonfiction mood.

I side with prisoners against guards, enlisted men against officers, weakness against power.
—Dickey Chapelle

On [her hat] were the Vietnamese airborne & 101st Airborne wings [&] insignias of the Sea Swallows & the Vietnamese Junk Force sailors.
Gen. Greene took [it] from her, looked it over.
“What is it sir?” said Dickey.
“I don’t see any Marine insignia ... aren’t we tough enough for you?” he asked and took his own from his collar. “I don’t think anybody will mind,” he said, pinning it to her hat” 🥺

"“Her career, it seemed, had finally begun in earnest, again. Tony was furious."

s h o c k e r.

“They followed up on a tip about a man who was paying the DMV for women’s registration information, then following them in his car.”

“... but they got the DMV to stop allowing the practice of purchasing private information.”

The DMV was doing WHAT.

"They are not prepared for this gelatin."

Nurse Ratched is killing me. I think she may be my favorite character out of any book.

Vic's about to do the dumbest thing I've ever seen a character in a book do.

I keep forgetting to finish this bc it's on my kindle and I read on my phone now. 🥲

Giovanni being referred to as Dad in the narration instead of his name is throwing me off so much for some reason.

I assume it was for copyright reasons but I was genuinely upset there's a recipe in this book that I can't use because it's incomplete, glad the actual recipe's really easy to find (image google search for 'bonnie doon oaties') and I have all the ingredientssss

definitely one of the ones who would've volunteered that I turned off autocaps bc "Lol" is weird and for some reason I spell it realise and I dont know whyyyy

This whole bit about "I dunno" and "idk" is "iono" erasure and I won't stand for it. you can say and type it (at least on a keyboard) equally quickly

stop 👏🏼 sexualizing 👏🏼 someone 👏🏼 you find 👏🏼 so annoying 👏🏼 Cain 👏🏼 you 👏🏼 fucking 👏🏼 pig.

""What is civilization? Civilization is devouring, ceaselessly eating, endlessly expanding; everything else comes second." - Emissary Fangs"