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“so it was with confidence, strengthened by pity and pride, that we decided to change the course of events and alter a human life” oh they love their sister pecola so much 🥹

cry me a river let the male loneliness epidemic RISE

pg 161-63… YOU WILL BURN IN HELL CHOLLY FUCK YOU TOO

“for now, he hated the one who had created the situation, the one who bore witness to his failures, his impotence. the one whom he had not been able to protect, to cover from the round moon glow of the flashlight.” FUCK YOU AGAIN WHITE PEOPLE

“their voice blended into a threnody of nostalgia about pain. rising and falling, complex in harmony, uncertain in pitch, but constant in the recitative of pain.” :(

“blood red, its planes dull and blunted with sweetness, its edges rigid with juice. too obvious, almost obscene, in the joy it promised.” such a beautiful writer

“holding cholly as a model of sin and failure, she bore him like a crown of thorns, and her children like a cross.” LET IT COOK 🔥🔥🔥

her writing is gorgeous but so heartbreaking