Status Updates From The Everlasting

6 star book otw, this is so good, it’s been so long since i’ve read something of quality😭😭

this book is SOOOOO GOOD

"You know that history is mostly happenstance. Accidents piled on top of mistakes, a series of dice rolled in dim rooms by careless hands. It is not a lesson until we learn it. It is not a story, until we tell it, and every story serves someone."

Hayao Miyazaki needs to pick this story up right now!!!

"It occurred to me, with a queer shiver, that you must have carried me from the yew to this cottage, and that you wouldn’t have found it difficult at all."
#goals

🥺

“was that not how you loved someone? by hammering your body into whatever shape they liked best, and handing yourself to them like a hilt?”

oh my god

“But if the body remembered pain, it surely remembered pleasure, too. Perhaps your lips remembered mine, and my hands recalled the shape of yours; perhaps each time you touch me it left a subtle mark, so that my skin had become a map drawn in invisible ink, which might lead me back to you.”

The end of chapter 3 made me gasp!