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this is good

avg rating is through the roof you know this is gonna be good

oliver bro be careful

is this going to fuck me up

have my color coded annotation tabs all ready & i’m doing it

changing my ratings bc they can’t be trusted

third person omniscient works incredibly for showing ugly sides of human nature

“I want to explain her in a way that would make you love her, but the problem with this is that loving is something we all do alone and through different sets of eyes.”

“decency has never provided enough to unbury their egos.”

“If you did something wrong, then so did Harriet Tubman and Gloria Steinem and every other woman who did what she had to do even when it wasn’t respected.”

this is heartbreaking

this is incredible & so so important; genuinely can’t believe it’s a debut

this man won’t ever stop digging his own grave will he

“she didn’t run off” it is ENTIRELY possible that she ran away from YOU

“i feel like i could disappear” OOOHH

why is he so whiny about everything like shut up stg

how have i not read this yet

this book is making me depressed so it must be good

this appeals to the most melancholy, melodramatic part of me and i absolutely adore it

i’m gonna annotate the fuck out of this👍👍

I HAVE A THEORY

“perhaps survival is its own form of torture.”

“i’ll be all the poets, i’ll kill them all and take each one’s place in turn, and every time love’s written in all the strands it will be to you.”

i-

“i want to meet you in every place i have loved.”

can’t breathe

“and we’ll run again, the two of us, upthread and down, firefighter and fire starter, two predators only sated by each other’s words.”

i’m unwell

“i’m quite certain i’ve never rambled a day in my life before this.”

fkdjsksfjsk

“and this letter is a knife at my neck, if cutting’s what you want.”

“adventure works in any strand- it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives.”

“what i can say: it was very cold out on the ice. your letter warmed me.”

oh

“If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.”