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Esmé
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I’m not even halfway through, but somehow it’s already the end of the school year. The way Selin and Ivan are losing things to say is making me lose hope. Is it possible that no one has ever drawn Ivan Varga? I already know how to visualize Selin bc it’s just Elif, but I need some kind of reference point for a frizzyhaired bespectacled Hungarian math student that someone could be infatuated with. Poor Selin.
— Apr 25, 2025 09:50PM
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“But you aren’t really looking!” she exclaimed. “You are—” She flipped through her dictionary. “Wool, gathering!”
“That’s true,” I said. “I am woolgathering.”
“You are thinking about your friend,” she said. “That’s why you don’t want to listen to me.”
“But Rózsa. Don’t you ever like to . . . to do woolgathering?”
“No! I am not a dreamer!”
This Rózsa is rlly smth
— Jun 06, 2025 08:16AM
“That’s true,” I said. “I am woolgathering.”
“You are thinking about your friend,” she said. “That’s why you don’t want to listen to me.”
“But Rózsa. Don’t you ever like to . . . to do woolgathering?”
“No! I am not a dreamer!”
This Rózsa is rlly smth
Esmé
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“‘In Turkey? You wouldn’t have a nervous breakdown. You’d give them a nervous breakdown.’ I forgave him for a lot when he said that. I forgave him for almost everything.”
Man oh man
— May 19, 2025 02:58PM
Man oh man
Esmé
is on page 189 of 423
I think I get what’s bothering me. The tension and infatuation of first love that is making Selin so muted and seemingly unable to just be natural is familiar, but it’s familiar not to my 18 year old self but to my 13 year old self. This is very frustrating because I want her to be past this. I guess this is the problem of having read a more confident experienced Selin in Either/Or first. Sigh.
— Apr 25, 2025 10:03PM
