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"From deep
inside, her laughter came like the sound of many rivers, freely, deeply,
muddily, heading for the room of an open sea. "

"Her voice was like an
earache in the brain."

"In these violent
breaks in routine that were themselves routine"

"Somehow he could not astound. He
could only be astounded."

"The furniture had
aged without ever having become familiar."

"I could not love it. But I could examine it
to see what it was that all the world said was lovable. "

"Our
peripheral existence"

as a writer every other sentence in this book is making me happy so apologies in advance y'all are about to be spammed 😭❤️

"If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were
happy"

"there was no bitterness in our
memory of him"

“He’s just picky.”
“He ain’t picky. You see anything around here you’d marry?”
“Well…no.”

💀💀💀💀

" So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody
with hands who does not want me to die"

"There is really nothing more to say—ecept why. But since why is
difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how"

.............i am already devestated 😭😭😭😭😭😭

"Pecola was having her father’s baby" EXCUSE YOU????

...................this is only the first few pages too my poor baby :((