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“Whether you come as a lover or an executioner, I am ready to receive you.”
holy shit

the fact that everyone in this family is so fucking insane that the house itself is decaying...love

hmm. guys i think we might have to kill all men

i will give it to the haters that the way holden describes women is foul. however he also seems to think he is better than every man in this book as well so maybe it's less about hating women and more about being insane. further study needed for verdict

when i was 15 this book was hilarious and it still is but it's also fucking depressing. his little brother is dead dude

holden explaining the different ways boys at his private school are handsome...now what's all this then

reread because everyone treats this book like it's the male manipulator bible and holden caulfield is the scum of the earth but i loved it when i was 15. seeing if i can clear my boys name here

the chapter on the satanic panic is fucking crazy i'm so fascinated by this bout of mass hysteria

"Shortly after reaching the colony, I fell fatally in love with Louis..Even in his cruellest moments, Louis touched the tenderness in me..." 😭❤️❤️❤️❤️

"the only thing really important for you is that you go to an extreme" i <3 my crazy bitch bestie armand who HAS to escalate literally every situation he has ever been in

ARMAND 💗💕💞💓💗💝🩷

"Long after Hughes and Price called an end to their strikes and attempted to reintegrate into society, the nursed old grudges and endlessly replayed their worst wartime abominations. In a sense, they never stopped devouring themselves."

good god

the italian informant having the nickname "the wop" is crazy 😭

"i would hate for young people now to have this romatinticized version of the events of that time. the truth is so very far removed from that." ‼️‼️‼️‼️📢📢📢

lestat's mommy issues game is insaneeee he loves her he hates her he idolizes her he wants to possess her he wants to kill her he wants to keep her alive forever he wants to set her free he wants to keep her in a little jar and shake it etc etc.....

lestat and magnus feeling like a speedrun of grooming, abuse, and confused aftermath.....sick to my stomachhhhh

constantly thinking about eric andre's "do you think margaret thatcher effectively utilized girl power by funnelling money into illegal paramilitary death squads in northern ireland?"

margaret thatcher was such a vile witch i wish her death had been more painful 😔

the fact that the hbo show removed the entire trial is crazy enough but removing when the old bailey bombers started humming a funeral march while their member turned traitor left the court room is fucking wild to me like this sounds like something out of a movie already and yet they fumbled it????

50 pages in and lestat has already cried at least ten times by now i ❤️ pathetic men

brendan hughes simultaneously being lucky enough to successfully break out of jail and unlucky enough to end up in loyalist territory with no ride is so on brand for the provos

IRA ballad "the patriot game" my beloved one of The ballads of all time

reread bc it's my fav nonfiction book of all time 💖💖💖💖

"But Joseph staring down at the two of them didn’t smile...sick as if he had suddenly lost something...In the manger in Bethlehem Mary listened to the angels and didn’t seem to feel as happy as when she first saw her child. She stared right through the wise men who had come with presents. Her eyes were filled with pain and fear."

tfw when u and ur husband realize u gave birth to a sacrificial lamb

"There’s nothing noble in death. What’s noble about lying in the ground and rotting?... You’re dead mister and you died for nothing."

phew chapter 10 is crazyyyyyy

“You can always hear the people who are willing to sacrifice somebody else’s life. They’re plenty loud and they talk all the time. They sound wonderful. Death before dishonor. This ground sanctified by blood. These men who died so gloriously. They shall not have died in vain. Our noble dead...But what do the dead say?”

“And then I remembered: the “new boy” in the neighborhood at home, on the Calumet Avenue of my childhood, ringed round by the neighborhood gang and trying to brazen it out alive. “Betcha my father can beat your father.” Betcha my fatherland can beat yours.”
this is literally the military loving americans to a T

...and the world you live in is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, the houses, the shops, the jobs...But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed.