Ella’s Reviews > Giovanni’s Room > Status Update

if i was any less sane than i currently am, i would be pulling my hair out fr. they are just SO…oh. my god

“He made me think of home—perhaps home is is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”

ENOUGH. OH MY GOD

“Sometimes I thought , but this IS your life. Stop fighting it. Stop fighting.”

No don’t worry about me, I’m just gonna go die real quick. It’s fine. Fuck.

the way that we know giovanni does not survive, and is in fact already dead during the retelling of all these events, is just a crazy decision that makes you go Wait..Why…What. like i can’t even enjoy their joy bc every few pages of just “What they don’t know is that Giovanni will already have been dead come morning” GIRL??

“I was in a box for I could see that, no matter how I turned, the hour of confession was upon me and could scarcely be averted; unless, of course, I leaped out of the cab, which would be the most terrible confession of all.”

OUCH. OW. STOP THIS. i say, as i continue reading.

“The big fish eat the little fish. That’s all. The big fish eat the little fish and the ocean doesn’t care.”

ENOUGH

“People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.”

DUDE?? the way in which my eyes widened omfg

“I was in full flight from him. I did not want him to know me. I did not want anyone to know me. And then, again, I was undergoing with my father what the very young inevitably undergo with their elders: I was beginning to judge him.”

Hey. I’m in this description and I don’t like it.