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what good is a witness in a country obsessed with forgetting?

“I have sat at the feet of poets who have told me that there is power in withholding. In not offering parts of yourself that people are most eager to see.”

some of the best prose of all time 🙏🏼

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oh my gosh i need a breatherrr this is rocking me to my core rn

got this as a birthday gift so now i am obliged to read it lol

“Separation from what you love best, that is hell. To be twice separated, first by a nation and then by its language: that is pain deeper than pain. Deeper than hell. That is abyss.”

“It feels so American to discount dreams because they’re not built of objects, of things you can hold and catalogue and then put in a safe. Dreams give us voices, visions, ideas, mortal terrors, and departed beloveds. Nothing counts more to an individual, or less to an empire.”

“İçinde hakikaten sevmek kabiliyeti olan bir insan hiçbir zaman bu sevgiyi bir kişiye inhisar ettiremez ve kimseden de böyle yapmasını bekleyemez. Ne kadar çok insanı seversek, asıl sevdiğimiz bir tek kişiyi de o kadar çok ve kuvvetli severiz. Aşk dağıldıkça azalan bir şey değildir.”

reread 🙂🙂

these characters know no peace

“We’re united in a smirk, then return to our corners as he continues.”
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alexander :(

damn seraphina, tough luck

damn it

girl 😵😵😵😵

“it is safe to say i have lost many games of spades” 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 awesome

“The Josephine Baker Monument Can Never Be Large Enough” is masterful

“This is the biggest trick of them all. You are burdened with a place, and then, by the time you realize that exit is a possibility, the options for exit seem distant, or insurmountable.”

i really enjoyed “nine considerations of black people in space”

well.

welp 😐

ok my question from the end of the last book has been answered within 100 pages thankfully

thomas is so silly

ok now this is interesting

this was lowkey not what i was hoping for when i bought this book lmao

that chapter was my actual 13th reason. dessie and tom :/

this whole “don’t let me be mean” thing is breaking my heart cal