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this book makes me want to rethink my whole existence

I could see every single moment in my head. The simple way out. The easy way out.

‘-well but what if they’re just being nice?

-i think, my daughter, that is the point.’

‘i learn that i can have opportunity or i can have home. i cannot have both, and either will always hurt.

i learn, by twenty-one, that any job is a good job. even a bad one is a good job; you’re lucky to have it.’

‘i need to tell you this - there is no knowing cape breton without knowing how deeply ingrained two diametrically opposed experiences are:

a deep love for home, and the knowledge of how frequently we have to leave it to find work somewhere else.’

‘the only message we got about a better future was that we had to leave home to have one.

we did not question it, because this is the have-not region of a have-not province, and it has not boomed here in generations.’

November 23, 1991
Dear friend,
Do you enjoy holidays with your family? I don't mean your mom and dad family, but your uncle and aunt and cousin family? Personally, I do. There are several reasons for this.
First, I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.

maybe these are my glory days, and i’m not even realizing it because they don’t involve a ball

i honestly enjoyed how the first part is written, the second was difficult to read through and the third didn’t catch my attention as well as the first two did

i loved the vibe tho, kind of a perfect read for the beginning of autumn 🍂

“Nines,” he spoke calmly, “you wanna know what Tina called me?”

An idiot, hopelessly in love with another idiot.

He scratched a few words.

“An idiot.”

“You are no fun," Sirius said, giving her a dirty look that Hermione knew was only in jest. He elbowed James and pointed at Remus. "Look at the goody-two shoes here. See what happens when you leave them alone for too long? They multiply like rabbit slippers left under the bed.”
🥲

“Without a word, and a meaningful glance at the pale, hook-nosed boy—who now looked as though he wished he were anywhere else but here”

snape being snape

“I am not in the least concerned with Harry fucking Potter,” Snape shouted…

“That’s the spirit!” Malfoy said. “Fuck Harry fucking Potter and the whole fucking Ministry. Fuck New Year’s Eve, while we’re at it, and fuck the fact that with his master out of the house, I cannot locate that fucking house-elf anywhere and I want a fucking cup of tea.”

«And yet, what better way to kill the time than to be constantly occupied?»

“So you gave Voldemort the information that put the Potters at risk?”
…
Snape’s head tipped forward and lock of his hair slipped from behind his ear and brushed over his cheek. She could see the furrows in his forehead deepen, and he shut his eyes.

“I did.”

“Look… at… me,” Snape whispered, and she whirled to look into her husband’s eyes. She felt him slip into her mind, and she wanted to tell him, No, stop, save your energy, Severus, save yourself, but she was unable to break his gaze, to look away from the blackest of black eyes that had held her so powerless and naked in life.

I love you, Hermione.”

“He wanted to swish from the room in an indignant swirl of fabric, but it seemed to him that the argument had taken the last of his strength. Everything he had trusted, everything he had believed in, had gone. Potter would not be saved. Neither of them would go to death in triumph. Dumbledore was not… he was not the man Snape had believed him to be, and the thought left him broken and unsure.”

“Do not speak of her as if you know her heart, Dumbledore. Hermione is not like girls of her age. She is motivated by honor, by light. She is a witch raised in wartime. She does not care for pretty things or--”

“And why are you so sure of that, Severus? Are you one of the ugly things she cares for?”

“You are crossing the line, old man!”

i can’t handle this anymore 🥲

“They run off eckeltricity, do they?” he said knowledgeably. “Ah yes, I can see the plugs, I collect plugs,” he added to Uncle Vernon. “And batteries. Got a very large collection of batteries. My wife thinks I’m mad, but there you are.”
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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“...and he realizes that this is the way it is, the way it must be: you don’t visit the lost, you visit the people who search for the lost.”
- Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“No, maybe not,” he said. “But he was dying.”
Jude had smiled at him. “Oh, dying,” he said dismissively. “We’re all dying. He just knew his death would come sooner than he had planned. But that doesn’t mean they weren’t happy years, that it wasn’t a happy life.”
- Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life