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"She watches me: I can feel her eyes. It's like she was shoving at me with them. I have seen it before in women. Seen them drive from the room them coming with sympathy and pity, with actual help, and clinging to some trifling animal to whom they never were more than pack-horses. That's what they mean by the love that passeth understanding: that pride, that furious desire to hide that abject nakedness which we bring

— Sep 26, 2025 02:40PM

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The entire chapter of Addie is breathtakingly beautiful, I tried to highlight and quote some passages but all of it is simply too stunning

— Oct 03, 2025 02:21PM

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"But my mother is a fish. Vernon seen it. He was there,
'Jewel's mother is a horse,' Darl said.
'Then mine will have to be a horse, too.' I said.
Jewel is my brother.
'Then mine will have to be a horse, too,' I said.
'Why?' Darl said. 'If pa is your pa, why does your ma have to be a horse just because Jewel's is?'
'Why does it?' I said. 'Why does it, Darl?'
Darl is my brother.
'Then what is your ma, Darl?' I said.

— Sep 29, 2025 03:12PM