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“I hope you’ll forgive me if I don’t write you a letter.”

“Is that the start of a letter?”

“Yeah, one in which I don’t know what to say. How do I ever say everything you mean to me?”

“I want everything from you that I don’t have”

“O, when I accidentally dropped a carton of cherry tomatoes on the floor:

‘How pretty! Do it again!’

So I do.”

“I would not be surprised if half of New York City has also put dibs on the Monet that Emily chose. This made it no less hers.

I brought her in closer to her new acquisition: ‘Emily, meet your Monet. Monet, Emily.’

Words did not fail her: ‘Hello, beautiful,’ she whispered.”

“(are they mine still?)”

“(is it mine still?)”

“(was it mine still?)”

“(is he mine still?)”

“I am glad to be on planet Earth with you. It would be much lonelier otherwise.”

“Looking back, every life-altering decision I’ve ever made has seemed, at first blush, misguided, misjudged, or plain foolish—and ultimately turned out to be the opposite: every seemingly wrong person I’ve fallen for, every big trip I’ve splurged on, every great apartment taken that I could not realistically afford. And, really, what is pursuing writing but a case study in an impractical career…?”

“I’d brought with me several small personal items that I had not been able to—but wanted to—part with. Each subsequent bridge became an occasion for a ceremonial purging and a fresh round of tears. By the time I reached London Bridge, where I scattered the last of his cremated ashes, the only significant thing remaining of Steve’s that I had not thrown in was myself. Not that I didn’t consider it.”

“I would be with a lover, […] I’d have him wrapped in my arms as we talked in the aimless, dreamy way that lovers do.
He has fallen asleep, as though I, of all people, possess the arms of Hypnos. […] As I draw him closer and nuzzle his neck, I cannot help remembering what the Greeks so wisely knew: The god of sleep has an identical twin, Thanatos, the god of death.”

Just shoot with a gun me next time

“Sometimes I’d sit in the kitchen in the dark and gaze out at the Empire State and Chrysler buildings. Such a beautiful pair, so impeccably dressed, he in his boxy suit, every night a different hue, and she, an arm’s length away, in her filigreed skirt the colour of the moon.”

Okay that’s gorgeous but why do we have to assign genders to buildings pls

“a kind of extreme parody of a narcissistic and histrionic personality: both infuriating and yet oddly genial with a great talent for looking crestfallen, which is a lost art these days.”

I’m ready to enter the cringe zone 💪😤

(I watched the first season and decided I couldn’t do the rest)

A couple pages a year for this read… 🤢

Unfortunately the only thing I like about this book rn is that there’s greek mythology intertwined in it

Ramsa 😭😭😭 he’s so wholesome with his shit bombs

How interesting that the majority of the action happens within the last 50 pages

“I have searched for years for an apprentice, and only you have ever understood the truth of the world.”

I love jiang & rin’s connection so much if jiang dies or becomes an antagonist I’m going to punch kuang in the face

Oh. my. god. Neil’s letter to rowan??? I read that shit and was fully sobbing fr. something about pouring out one’s heart and soul in a letter just ruins me

“‘Crush’ is too weak of a word to describe how I feel.”
god fucking damnit I love these idiots two so much I could gnaw off my own arm

“Sometimes I get this strange feeling, an ache not for something I miss, but for something I’ve never known.”

Oh! Just punch me in the throat next time!

Never mind here’s the dumbass quote 🙄

“Every cell in her body burst apart and fused back together.”

Chapter 27 feels like I’m reading an original male character / original female character; mutual pining; pwp fanfic… I don’t even have a quote for this… like damn…

“I practically rub myself raw thinking about the way your mouth moves”

Every word from josh makes me want to scream and not in the good way

“Apparently, sometimes a raging hard-on was nothing more than a biological consequence.”

Why was this sentence even written… like pls…

What the hell, sure

“I know he likes me. Of course I flatter him dreadfully. I find a strange pleasure in saying things to him that I know I shall be sorry for having said.”

Okay so what I’m seeing here is that Basil Hallward is the inventor of yearning and risky texting

“Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain.”

And Dorian Gray is the inventor of lovebombing?

I love it when women kill men

“In a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”

If Circe knows how to do one thing it’s pine after unavailable men

Never mind she’s not having his children

Okay so Circe (human-like nymph; witch) & Hermes (god? titan-born) became lovers. Do they have children?

Someone explain to me how their Punnett square works

Actually no I need to see their family tree bc this may be inbreeding