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”Life itself, he thinks, every moment of life, is as precious and beautiful as any game of chess ever played, if only you know how to live.”

oh, who else writes about god and love in this way? there’s so much sincerity here

“In nature, he thinks, there’s no such thing as ugliness. It’s like he tried to tell Margaret in the car, beauty belongs to God, and ugliness to human beings”

“To spend an afternoon together, playing with the dog, eating dinner, doing nothing, only being together, just once more”

i feel like im in emotional turmoil

found peter’s chapters to be really hard to digest in the beginning, although it stylistically makes sense, and maybe im reading too much into it but it flows so differently when he’s with sylvie and it just brings me to tears