Georgie Laws’s Reviews > The Bluest Eye > Status Update

“Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality—collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way they found each other.”

Loving this book so far, scared that it’s gonna get really sad but I persevere

Very interesting to call homelessness “outdoors”. Because in the world homelessness we imagine a home bc it’s in the world but when we just say outdoors, we can only imagine being outside

“The edge, the curl, the thrust of their emotions is always clear to Freida and me. We do not, cannot, know the meanings of all their words, for we are nine and ten years old. So we watch their faces, theirs hands, their feet, and listen for truth in timbre.”

Enjoying so far… know it’s going to become different soon and I’m not sure I’m prepared… excited to read Sula again not in an academic way

Probably gonna take so much effort in me to not post quotes every five seconds… but here is one. “We do not, cannot, know the meanings of all their words, for we are nine and tens years old. So we watch their faces, their hands, their feet, and listen for the truth in timbre.”