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“Have you looked around at the state of things lately? Any really decent man ought to be angry, you’d think”

Tea

“Nykøbing Falster er en by, som er så lille, at den begynder med at holde op (…) Her blev jeg født i 1960, og det var det tætteste, jeg kunne komme på ikke at findes.”

“Intelligence and education that hasn’t been tempered by human affection isn’t worth a damn.” !!!

“A man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing, Miriam. It isn’t like a mothers’s womb. It won’t bleed, it won’t stretch to make room for you”

“Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter. Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”

audiobook so good I had to get a physical copy

unavailable for the next few business days

“En person kunne ikke længere følge med tiden. Man nåede et bristepunkt og sled videre. Den sorg hænger i tingene, at det aldrig vender. Forfaldet tager en med ned.”

Jeg har vitterligt aldrig frygtet noget så meget som jeg frygter de sidste sider af den her bog… and yet i cannot and will not put it down

Jeg ved ikke hvad jeg skal stille op med mig selv, når jeg er færdig med den her bogserie lige om lidt…

Tom Hanks som oplæser??? Øh ja tak!!!

At slutte bog fem med en kæmpe cliffhanger også køre hele bog seks fra andre povs er et sindssygt move, men damn i am hooked

Det tog sådan ca 150 sider for mig at blive hooked og nu har jeg lige skulle bide alle mine tårer i mig på tagterrassen

Vi skal læse call me by your name i engelsk, og jeg er meget spændt på hvad 3am siger til det…

lige for tiden er jeg virkelig bare i humør til at genlæse godt romance... og honestly, I'm not mad about it

Den her bog kommer enten til at knuste mit hjerte i rigtig mange småstykker eller skuffe mig… og jeg er bange for at der ikke er nogen mellemting

“Han ville gerne være uendelig lykkelig, men han havde ikke noget talent for lykke”

av av av av

karen dit fucking ikon

“The king’s face flushed purple. Maybe he’d have a heart attack and save us all a lot of bother. “You will stay silent amongst your betters!”
Genya lifted her chin. “I have no betters here.””

“Lucas mistakes my silence for shock, be he’s wrong. What I feel now is anger.
Anyone can betray anyone.”

“…And what I want my epitaph to say: The boy Violet Markey Loves.”

“And maybe we sing to keep ourselves from falling. Maybe we sing to keep ourselves.”

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”

““And perhaps it is the greater grief after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?”
“Perhaps,” Achilles admitted.
I listened and did not speak. Achilles’ eyes were bright in the firelight, his face drawn sharply by the flickering shadows. I would know it in dark or disguise, I told myself. I would know it, even in madness.

“I have none of the inducements of women to marry. Were I ever to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! But I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine.”

“Sophie forstod straks betydningen.
Sang Real betød helt bogstaveligt Kongeligt Blod.”

“So dark the con of man”

“how many poems must you write to convince yourself you have a family? everyone leaves & you end up the stranger.”

“Aren’t I a miracle? A seed that survived the slaughter & slaughters to come. I think I believe in freedom I just don’t know where it is.
I think I believe in home, I just don’t know where to look.”

“I love him better than myself, and I know it by this: I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable that that he should be: that proves I love him better than myself.”