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trying out a switch to Storygraph :)

“I fear that I’m bitter. I’m too young to be bitter …And I fear that I resent my mother. The person I have lived for. My idol. My role model. My one true love.”

The Assassin and the Healer — ***** - maybe my favourite TOG story, second only to the tomfoolery of QOS. I was so excited when I saw Yrene was in TOD!!!!

The Assassin and the Desert — ***

The Assassin and the Pirate Lord - ***

“This one is not for you, he knew, but please, please, may I borrow her from someone else’s fate? May I have her until her stars change, or mine? May I worship her until I die, and may I give her all of me, for better or worse, or worse, or surely worse?”

“Do you really believe people are so isolated that when they’re gone, nothing grows in their place? To really kill something, you have to kill everything. You have to raze it to the ground…Do you have the stomach for that?”

“To believe in destiny, one must also believe in succession. If the world is ruled by predeterminqtion, then it must also be ordered, measured, paced out from first to last:

It this, then this.”

“This revelation proved that second chances did not always have to be fought for—they could be taken in handfuls for free like after-dinner mints. Could I truly clear the fetid swamp or a past like mine with dandelions and butterfly stretches? Was it really that simple?

No, not exactly. But it was a start.”

Beautiful chapter.

“No matter what I do, no matter where I try to find joy, I instead find my trauma. And it whispers to me: ‘You will always be this way. It’s never going to change. I will follow you. I will make you miserable forever. And then I will kill you.’

The literature says this is normal for traumatized people…

But, as usual, knowing that I am textbook doesn’t help me rise off the page.”

“But that’s exactly the problem. I’m tired of pulling. I don’t want to pull anymore. I want a dumbwaiter, or an escalator, or a floating rainbow drug cloud. Anything to life me toward emotional stability. To fix me.”

This overthinking back and forth is SO FUNNY HAHAHAHA idiots I love it

The disorganized style is giving me a headache but some part of me is really enjoying this romantic and heroic characterization of Henry’s paranoia and hyper vigilance lol

me, munching on popcorn and reading about Henry’s cunning “watcher”: yeah that’s right trust NO ONE you funky little exile

Real Life Writes Real Bad - ***
Almeyer's Mother - **

The Name's the Same - ****

The Sky - *****
Dreams - *****

Wow, at both of these.

Foxes - ****

Foxes - ****

A Gift of Mercy - ***

I relate a little too strongly to Bragg and Minna, and their demons.

Bragg and Minna - ****

South Country - **
Bull Head - *
Pit Bulls - *

Fences - ***
Cutblock - ***
Gas Bar - *****

Two-Step: ****
Short Haul: ***

I am enjoying this way too much and also want to watch ANTM.

Tough Love-* <-I found this one morally repulsive. I'm starting to question Dalrymple's capacity for kindness. It Hurts, Therefore I am - **

"Here's another way to think about these numbers: When an individual is raped in [the USA], more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets away with the crime."

"I actually wasn't that drunk--not nearly as wasted as he was," Barrett said, "but before you learn the realities of sexual assault, you're taught that it's dangerous to walk alone at night, because strangers are out to get you. The safer option seemed to be to stay at his place. So that's what I did."

Goodbye, Cruel World - **
Reader, She Married Him--Alas - **

"Without religious belief to imbue their existence with transcendental meaning from without, they can provide none for themselves from within." ... ... ... ok.

The Knife Goes On - *