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"they never had any children so their affection was concentrated upon themselves"

“The cells, tissues, systems and cavities of the body”chapter is TEARING ME APART. HELLO. BEYOND POETIC REALLY JESUS CHRIST. Does it take a surely deadly illness to have someone write and think of you this way. No because I think of people this way.

“What you risk reveals what you value”

Four pages later — no! I don’t want someone to love me like Narrator does. Infidelity is not a showing of love because you don’t love yourself or respect oTHERS. Fuck you narrator

Do men long for people like women do? And I’m not sure I want someone to long for me the way Narrator does for Louise; it blew up their life and everyone’s life they touch. I don’t want love to come with pain. It’s too destructive. WHAT is love idk mannnn

started reading this bc of an booktok recommendation and i find it very interesting, no chapters is really hard for my brain, but i love discussing love so each paragraph is worth it even if there is no checkpoint along the way

I’m so bored 😭😭😭

“I would have poured my life to him”

“I’m gonna be the wind”

I wish I read this when I was younger. I am lucky to feel comfortable in my gender box. I def lean feminine, and I’m comfy trying out new ways of presenting myself. It’s so hard to read about Jess and Theresa navigate Jess’s desire to be a man (not rlly but kinda. Doesn’t matter) and Jess refuse to be perceived as straight. I think I feel more sympathetic for Jess. Reminds me of Robbie Hoffman and Gabby W

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“I wish I could do everything in life once as practice and then go back and do it again”

i am comforted knowing that an old russian man from long ago had the same feelings in his 20s even longer ago as i do now in my 20s.

summ: suffering and wellbeing are of equal benefit to man. pain and suffering are more enjoyable than no life at all. like when stephen colbert said "what punishments of god are not gifts." life is a gift whether it's painful or enjoyable at any moment,

summ: man lives to prove to himself that he is a man. he must have follies or there would not be life, personality, purpose.