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i worry for miranda the way i would worry for myself; i am her and she is me

“just those three words, said and meant. i love you. they were quite hopeless. he said it as he might have said, i have cancer.”
WTF

MUST finish soon must meet my pathetic goodreads reading goal…… god

“it’s me he wants, my look, my outside; not my emotions or my mind or my soul or even my body. not anything human.
he’s a collector. that’s the great dead thing in him.”

“Tonight in the lounge… we went through a book of paintings. No mind if his own. I don’t think he listens half the time. He’s thinking about sitting near me and straining to be near me without touching. I don’t know if it’s sex, or fear that I’m up to some trick. If he does think about the pictures, he accepts everything I say. If I said Michelangelo’s David was a frying pan he’d say ‘I see’”

also “they aren’t deliberately mad, they must be as shocked in a way as everyone else when they finally do something terrible”

HE IS THE WORST

passion depicted through love (ferdinand) and hate (miranda)