Status Updates From The Portrait of a Lady

I was going at a good pace when first reading this book, but then it got to the part where Isabel rejects the perfect guy for her and instead favors this obviously shitty man. Once a story gets to that part I get so disappointed and discouraged that my reading pace slows down because Isabels life can’t get any worse if I don’t read it right?

“Mr. Ralph Touchett, an American who lives in Europe.” That signifirs absolutely nothing - it’s impossiblr that anything could signify less.

it’s ‘I’m tired of the sound of the word; I think it’s grotesque’ but i first read sound of the world which wouldve been a good banger

A woman, perhaps, can get on; a woman, it seems to me, has no natural place anywhere; wherever she finds herself she has to remain on the surface and, more or less, crawl.