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“sometimes she felt like saying: would you miss me, if you didn’t have me anymore? she had asked him that once on the ghost estate, when they were just kids. he had said yes then, but she’d been the only thing in his life at that time, the only thing he had to himself, and it would never be that way again.” OH BUT HIM SAYING EARLIER HE HAS A PART OF HER INSIDE HIM OUHHH NOOO

“he has sincerely wanted to die, but he has never sincerely wanted marianne to forget about him. that’s the only part of himself he wants to protect, the part that exists inside her.” OUCH

“it was only one-all, and there were still twenty minutes left on the clock. but that was their world then. their feelings were suppressed so carefully in everyday life, forced into smaller and smaller spaces, until seemingly minor events took on insane and frightening significance. it was permissible to touch each other and cry during football matches.” oh so watch me cry this whole section is so len core

“trying to summon an exact mental picture of rob’s face, connell found that he couldn’t: an image would appear at first, whole and recognizable, but on any closer inspection the features would float away from one another, blur, become confused.” LEN’S DREAMS CORE OUCHHH

“the outside world touches against her outside skin, but not the other part of herself, inside.” oh ouch ivory core..

“obviously we’re not going to save the middle east by talking about it at a house party” IJBOLLLLL

“do i still have pupils?” “yes they’re huge” “oh well. they get like that when i see you anyway.” i misjudged your game connell waldron.. was about to say you were pathetic as hell too..

ivan ilych you are one hell of a weirdo..

“schwartz was waiting for him in the adjoining room with legs spread wide apart and both hands toying with his top hat behind his back.” you don’t say…

i ain't never seen an unhappier family than this.. a solid 4 stars?

this is absolute cinema i tell you

"fatty looks round enquiringly" I'M SOBBINGGGGGG GET HIM BOYS

"you'll never make anything of your life, bäumer," I CACKLED LMAOOOOO

"he says he means to use the fat that slowly accumulates in the tin-lid for polishing his boots, and roars with laughter for half an hour at his own joke." WALLAH HE'S SO ME IJBOLLLL

"the pale hour makes our faces look grey." ouhh my god the ivory hour core.. tell me why it's on page 60 too.. something something the ivory hour isn't just the hour of peace edith and len feel meeting each other but also the early hours where the boys trudge along in the war and they're so alone that everything is bright again in the world and their faces are illuminated in ivory. my book is going to be GENIUS!

"am i crying?" I AM!

never thought i'd be reading a description of earth that's mildly sexual yet still works.. but here we are!

love these boys so bad

"someone growls that he will pound tjaden into bog-myrtle if he doesn't shut up." GET HIM DIVA LMAOOO

“we couldn’t do without kat” oh if movies didn’t exist..