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literally god willing i will finish all these books. this one’s an audiobook so no one worry

oh man the yearning. i am having the absolute time of my life

“‘And anyway it’s no big deal to go to a museum with a friend.’

And yet she found herself phrasing it like a question, her intonation rising as she trailed off. Michel pulled her in to his side.

‘Careful, little sister.’ He forestalled her protest. ‘Look both ways before crossing the road.’”

testing my mental stability w this bad boy

another audiobook i fear

baby’s first audiobook. this reads so male gaze but i was desperate for something to listen to and im in it now

“The combination of Harvard and Haiti had begun to form a new kind of belief in Farmer. He would tell me years later: ‘The fact that any sort of religious faith was so disdained at Harvard and so important to the poor— not just in Haiti but elsewhere, too— made me even more convinced that faith must be something good.’”

“Cycling along U.S. 93 was to experience a highway from the outside, the wrong side, to feel the wind and the kicked-up gravel and the impossible mass of a logging truck chewing up a straightaway, to understand the vulnerability of a soft and living body in a world made for machines. It was to feel a lot like prey.”

“Being near [them] kept me from having to say to myself ‘I am not afraid’ whenever I heard a branch snap in the dark or the wind shook so fiercely it seemed something bad was bound to happen. But I wasn’t out here to keep myself from having to say ‘I am not afraid.’ I’d come [] to stare that fear down, to stare everything down, really— all that I’d done to myself and all that had been done to me.”

“Australia’s [wildlife] carers [] became celebrities [for their roles in caring for animals in large wildfires…] The accolades seemed both overdue and beside the point. Rain eventually quenched the fires, but roadkill never rests. Carers were heroic not merely because they responded valiantly to a finite disaster, but because they rose daily to confront a crisis they knew would never end.”

little astronaut romance to get me back in the swing of things

“‘I can’t imagine you ever being lonely,’ she said. ‘I can’t imagine that everyone’s not beginning to stand next to you all the time.’”

“Necesitamos más amor, más eventos en las avenidas con las congas, música y colores y personas bailando. Cuando bailas, el miedo desaparece.”

actually kind of a banger? but i really need to learn past tense and also WHY is the past tense of ir fui. please

i fear i am starting to get bored

“I sat in the chair and untangled my consciousness from the cage of my physical self, so that I could run freely in a broad meadow of thoughts, like a romping dog off his leash. I lay down on the grassy field, my mind blank, and stared vacantly at the white clouds passing in the sky.”

“Her mind began to wander to Magnus. And not for the first time she asked herself what she was doing. A bubble of panic rose in her stomach. She pushed the thought down, vowing to interrogate it at a later date if necessary, hopefully never.”

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