Maeve’s Reviews > East of Eden > Status Update

not to be crazy… but this has been my new favourite book since i read the very first page

“And Adam was more afraid of the gentleness than he had been at the violence, for it seemed to him that he was being trained as a sacrifice, almost as though he was being subjected to kindness before death, the way victims intended to the gods were cuddled and flattered so that they might go happily to the stone and not outrage the gods with unhappiness.”