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2026 we’re finishing this book ladies

might it be… a nonfiction book i finish this year?

done reading big girl books. romcoms only from now on

“Let us be clear: Sloane did not want to complain about Max. She wanted (needed) (desperately needed) Alex to believe that Sloane was an intelligent woman who, in a time of profound feminine progress, had chosen a radical feminist for a partner from a place of deep love and sexual attraction, not economic necessity or any pressing sociological need to marry like she was some kind of pumpkin spice bitch.”

i have been fighting for my life trying to finish this book

“But greatness was cruelty, it was passion, it was Self at the expense of everything else. Sometimes he wanted to freeze his own heart and go about the world like that, to see what would happen. What great things he might do. What if this life he’d built, this life of ‘times’— tummy time and family time, quiet time and Medieval Times— was just a sentimental trap?”

“It was the kind of thing we found hysterically funny at home but James would sometimes drag into public life, where I was still trying to be Bookshop Girl. I wanted to be caught in a beam of sunlight looking elegant and melancholy, possibly writing a poem at the same time. I tried this for years and it took me until my mid-twenties to realise that it’s strictly for short women.”

“Let me tell you, I know few people as good at the hang as Bernardo. When dude sits down on our porch, […] he will cross his legs and topple into the first of several stories, it is a study in associational narrative logics, and the last thing he’s thinking about, I have to tell you this, is that you or maybe he has to be somewhere. The last thing he’s looking at is his watch.”

something about this writing makes me want to argue

“Under the cover of progress, the guise even of care, we would sometimes do anything— blast reflective particles into the atmosphere to cool the earth; build a better bee; genetically modify all the seed we’ve been given; put duct tape on god-damned photosynthesis— to refuse the perfect generosity of the earth. To refuse ‘in dependence.’”

“He takes stock of the Tesla and of the visitor and of the inevitability of a person’s past locating them no matter how they thwart and buck their life’s course, trying to lose its tail.”

this book is longer than you’d think?? but so good, female irish authors strike again

does nell know she’s teaching the UH honors college human situation course

“I had never owned a bike that was not secondhand and coming apart. Brakes were more of an ideological pursuit than a mechanism.” <3

okay why are there no chapters

my favorite authors keep writing the same books over and over and i can’t blame them bc i keep reading them

i’m gonna finish this one guys don’t worry about the other three i just started

“Modern conservation as a practice is only necessary in a culture built around extraction. There is no need to ‘protect’ lands in a culture that doesn’t try to destroy them.” - Gina Rosa Cova

“‘In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.’

The land of the blind would be built for the blind; there would be no expectation among its citizens that the world should be other than what it was. […] The one-eyed man would spend his life learning to translate what experience was his alone, or else he would learn to shut up about it.”

just freaking yum delicious i love these characters i love this writing

“They look at each other very briefly, as if love could wait while they’re busy, as if they imagine that all the time they need to say everything they’re longing to say will just magically appear one fine day.

[Their son] hasn’t told anyone how often he has thought about how to solve all the practical problems when they get divorced, how they’re going to live […]. Because it feels like a countdown.”