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insightful but some points on the isms are simplistic

sooo coming of age

“I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to make myself”

i did nottttt expect that, poor kid

“They relaxed slowly until during the walk back home their fingers were laced in as gentle a clasp as that of any two young girlfriends trotting up the road on a summer day wondering what happened to butterflies ”

okay the suicide day explanation was beautiful

i am not into this private shadrack section

disturbing yet addicting

wow

“i must keep serious”
i get you girl

atwood is doing her thing omg
“a rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze”

“Already we were losing the taste for freedom, already we were finding these walls secure”

“I liked watching those people when they were happy, not when they were miserable, starving, emaciated, straining themselves to death over some simple thing, the digging of a well, the irrigation of land, problems the civilized nations had long ago solved”
…zenophobia

super descriptive and poignant, miss atwood’s white feminism is so distracting tho

“in a gradual heating bathtub you’d be boiled to death before you knew it”
so good so descriptive

i forgot how good this woman writes

I love this book but I’m taking a pause to read other things

it’s so interesting, love the therapist perspective