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“The problem with love, of course, is that it frequently asks too much of unlovable people. It can be hard, on even the best of days, to compel oneself to be selfless and patient and understanding or even halfway reasonable when one is not given to any of those behaviors. But these are nonetheless the qualities that love demands.”

“It is easy, Jude has always reflected, to love a difficult woman. Easy to become the solid place around which she gathers herself, all her insecurities and rages and vendettas, the mooring from which she hangs. Irene is a fucking nightmare, and lovable for it. Lovable because she asks consistently to be loved…” kill me

“Jude moves one hand to the back of her head and says nothing, cups her skull like something small and easily stowed. It is easier, she thinks, to cry like this, with someone holding all her vital parts in place.”

“It’s not a nice quality (and, more to the point, it is not an interesting quality), this tendency to react to the prospect of intimacy with immediate panic. She is aware, painfully aware, that there is nothing more tedious than a person who turns to another and says, I don’t know, I just find it hard to stay interested in someone who actually likes me.”

this is exactly what it’s like to work in a coffee shop i kid you not. minor health code violation, gossiping in between fulfilling orders, being gay..

“The distance from home softened me a bit toward my mother; now that I was in a house where I was casually written off, I could see that however she went about it, she did care, and the idea had always been to make me easier to love.”

14 pages of this weeb shit is surely unnecessary … surely

“what if he can only be attracted to his abstract fantasies, perhaps even to the very quality of their nonexistence?”

“It is my right to reside in my own mind. It is my right…It is my right to be unsociable and it is my right to be unpleasant to be around.”

wow!!!!!! “mothers” was so intense, i loved it

this book has taken a devastating turn

the most unreliable a narrator can be before you start getting irritated

YIPEEE pt 2

YIPEEEEEEEEE

“i didn’t want a lover, i wanted someone i could talk to, and i found that in you.”

babel reignited my love for reading because the way i’m tearing through this book is unprecedented

i’ve gotten to a point in this book where reading in public is dangerous because i Will cry

SPOILER but was no one gonna tell me everyone i love fucking dies

good riddance 🙏🏽