deats’s Reviews > East of Eden > Status Update

samuel hamilton and adam trask said “we cant name these kids cain and abel bc it would be too on the nose, so we’ll just call them cal and aron, which is totally different <3”

i like how cathy has all these meticulously laid plans but then every couple chapters she has two drinks and ruins her own life again

what the FUCK just about every other sentence kicks me full force in the stomach. too good to pick favorites but a few that stuck

“his conscience bridged him to his brother and did his pain for him the way at other times he had done his homework.”

“i love you better. else why would i have given myself the trouble of hurting you?”