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“Most natives are too poor to escape the reality of their lives; and they are too poor to live properly in the place where they live, which is the very place you, the tourist, want to go—so when the natives see you, the tourist, they envy you, they envy your ability to leave your own banality and boredom, they envy your ability to turn their own banality and boredom into a source of pleasure for yourself.”

"Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting."

i knew mormons are racist but THIS is insane

his cat is named WHAT???????

never reading another book with a software developer main character 😍

ngl i've lost almost all interest in this book atp i'm reading just cuz i own it

“If you want to insult a woman, call her a prostitute. If you want to insult a man, call him a woman.”

“Being pretty only kept me trapped in a world that valued looks above all else.”

how does a 27 y/o think that wearing a tight dress, thigh highs, red lipstick, and red nail polish to a job interview at MIT is normal...

why would an italian general gag over blood fueds/revenge killings when italy (and many other countries!) also had them...

"i had by now discovered that i didn't have a good character" me in high school tbh

already highlighted some quotes ELENA FERRANTE YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS

“Look at that cock on him. I should have such a cock.”

they're talking about a literal horse.......send in the flood

“The second son, Frederico, called Fred or Fredo, was a child every Italian prayed to the saints for. Dutiful, loyal, always at the service of his father, living with his parents at age thirty.”

my personal nightmare...

jack could teach a masterclass in gaslighting. maybe then he wouldn't have gotten fired.

not a seven year old antichrist making me tear up oh tj klune you've done it again

"For her whole life she would sacrifice to him every quality of her own, and he wouldn't even be aware of the sacrifice, he would be surrounded by the wealth of feeling, intelligence, imagination that were hers, without knowing what to do with them, he would ruin them." not even 10% in and she drops this absolute banger...

the main character saying "we did the miscommunication thing!!" and "this is not the main character moment i was hoping for".......this is why i don't read contemporary romance

so rowan punched her in the face and left her a note saying "you deserved it"....aight

is this supposed soul-friend relationship between celaena and nehemia in the room with us right now?

nehemia is pissing me off to no end like you know your friend had her entire country slaughtered yet u throw a tantrum cuz she won't single-handedly start a rebellion for u like bffr!!

this book is a masterclass in gaslighting

i don't understand how the main character, a mother, just left gory crime scene pictures laying around knowing there was a nosy and traumatized child in the house??? i know she already alluded to being a bad mother but Damn...

this is like brandon sanderson if he slayed...

#SHOOTERSFORADAMPARRISH

exam season got me fucked up so this will have to wait i fear

the writing of this is SO beautiful