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Some passages in this book are so beautifully written that for a moment i lose my grasp on reality and briefly ascend to realms accessible to no human but Alix E. Harrow apparently

Inventing new expletives to use against Vivian Rolfe as we speak

this man had to have been paid by the word because holy fuck

RIP Ivan Kalamazov you would’ve loved 90 minutes long voice notes

the jump from second to first person honestly gagged me this is so GOOD

alyosha go back to the monastery these people are insane

i can feel the heartbreak i’ll go through by the end of this book all the way from here and i’m not looking forward to it

Fyodor Karamazov up there in the list of most embarrassing fictional parents ever, good god

god please bring my beautiful family back together

Emiel Regis the only man ever in my heart how I adore you

this is the book that’ll finally get me to start annotating (i can’t keep up with dostoyevsky giving everybody six different names and no way to track them)

Mr. Darcy getting utterly bodied by Elizabeth during his marriage proposal, then going home and writing two whole pages of counter arguments that he ACTUALLY got her to read was very healing to me as someone who comes up with their best comebacks two days later in the shower

oh people weren’t kidding when they said Jane Austen is funny, that woman had JOKES

nobody prepared me for how much second hand embarrassment i’d feel reading this book

not sure how i feel about the writing so far