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Freedom is the very nature of being, that whatever stands against this freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form

"Ahab, Queequeg, Ophelia and other characters die on the page so that we might live a better lives".

"This is what Kaikeyi failed to see: it's not enough to merely love someone. Even if we love them with our entire being,even if we are willing to commit the most heinous sin for their well being. We must understand and respect the values that drive them. We must want what they want, not what we want for them "

I learnt a new fact about love that day: it could kill. Sometimes it could kill instantaneously.

"so this too was true about love:it could make us forget our own needs. It could make us strong even when the world was collapsing around us"

"I was looking at another of love's many faces. It made us ready to wreak havoc-- even on people we cared for -- inorder to protect those whom we cherished more."

"If love can change so quickly into hate...what can we depend on? "

"It is unjust to look at the many millions of us and reduce us all to one feeling, one philosophy, one desire"

"First, she would have to let this strange new life, the loneliness of it, the sorrow still aching inside her, finish breaking her heart.
And then she would have to rebuild it. "

12:16 a.m and here I am crying ugly into the middle of the night , and a book as a cause. ❤️ I can feel it pulling at my heart.

I want to unread this. I am anxious, i am upset, I am wounded. I want to live in a world devoid of pain and trauma,death and brutal choices that aren't choices at all!

"One generation to change the text. One generation to teach that text. The next grows, and the lie becomes history".

"It cuts away the bullshit and niceties, revealing whoever you are at your core".

" To find true makoto no kokoro, you don't need to be in harmony with a Kami. You need to be in harmony with yourself"

" I would have thought you liked bad ideas."
"Only when they are mine".

"She hadn't wanted that to be Jack's story - SHE wanted to be his story". 🥹

" And then they will write their vows on their hands and place them over each other's chest, so they may sink into their hearts, where they will be kept safe forever and always."

I feel like a teenager enjoying a fairytale🥹

Time for a re read before the sequel release😍😍

All i want is another holiday and finish the rest of this book in one sitting!! I FOUND A NEW FAVORITE IN THIS ONE!!😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

I slept guys!!! Going right to the DNF shelf!!🫤

Am I going to be disappointed? Time for a classic. I have been receiving sound compulsions to read this, multiple times last month. Fingers 🤞!!