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“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

“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