Status Updates From The House of Rust

chapter 15 💔

what is a painted collar of a prison? colonialism?

"They were avenging themselves upon all the sly creatures, all the cunning liars who had kept them bound or been too indifferent or afraid to intervene and free them."

no way no way no way

"The sharks turned on their brother, tearing at it, feeding even in their horror."

Hmmm

took a break but we back

There is no place that can be made empty of God.
Will it be dishonest?
It can become less so. With an earnest enough heart, we can learn sincerity, faith...even if your voice trembles, even if your hands shake...You make the prayer, do not fear the answer.

this is cool and all but where's my boi White Breast

A kindness, like all things, is a transaction, a pending promise, a debt.

povs so far: aisha, omar, zubeir

"To be unknowable was selfish in these parts, showed a lack of trust and a lack of neighbourliness."

"A cat could not weep, but it could cry"

theme of uselessness - explore

"A woman is like a rib, crooked--to straighten her would be to break her."

"Are you alive if you do not question the world? If you do not go to war with yourself in deciding how to acquaint yourself with it or challenge it? ... will you have had the courage and say I did deeds good and bad, I disagreed with the world around me, I was awake and I believed and I doubted, but I was not immobilized. I was alive, and to the best of my abilities, I was alive."

this has the makings of a comfort read.

ave minha nossa, esse livro não termina nunca

pensei que já tava no final rsrsrs que enrolação que virou essa história