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him resenting his mom for being a mean “man-hater” when she was the ONLY WOMAN IN A LOGGING CAMP????

i’d threaten them with knives too tf

i cannot STAND jerome’s sob story about not knowing his background because he never asked his mom’s last name or where she came from. 10 years old and he never once asked a single thing about her? bro that’s on you

“Kate thinks I bring a lot of this onto myself because I like fighting. But I don’t believe I really like fighting. It’s just that I’m apt to explode”

“If I say that his face reminded me of a Dutch cheese I don’t mean that it had the complexion of a Dutch cheese; it simply made you think of one.”

hello? 😭😭😭

"There is no man I respect more than the schoolmaster born to the job, but none I pity more than the man not born to it who falls into its trap and stays till the chalk dust passes through his pores into his bloodstream and soul. Such a man I might have been myself had I not escaped"

“Such was my family. I don’t expect you to believe them, but this is what they were like.”

“Catherine was imperious that summer; inside she always was, yet with this wayward little girl’s feeling that if she ever wanted anything badly it was going to be taken away from her”

“What was Mummy like when she was my age?” “How should I know? I was too much in love to know,”

I love how the main character really respects his wife & step-daughter. There’s so many lines that surprise me because I can’t believe this book was written by a man. Its so rare to see old books (and even books now) where women are described respectfully and as full people. ily hugh <3

“Truly I thought this girl felt guilty whenever she detected a trace of neurosis in herself and this made me smile grimly. Was neurosis the new word for sin?”

i’m supposed to be at page 142 for class tomorrow so of course i started listening to game of thrones audiobook instead <3