Status Updates From The Days of Abandonment

Eu estava louco para ler esse

Yet again another book i must leave behind due to lack of luggage space

This is good but so sad i need a break

Nice good

I was whole, whole I would remain. To those who hurt me, I react giving back in kind. I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.

Lucidity, determination, hold on to life.

“A woman can easily kill on the street, in the middle of a crowd, she can do it more easily than a man. Her violence seems a game, a parody, an improper and slightly ridiculous use of the male intent to do harm.”

“We don't know anything about people, even those with whom we share everything.”

Woah this is inducing a lot of anxiety

Needed this book when i was spiraling at 18

Re-reading...

“I had an excessive reaction that pierced the surface of things.”

“The whole future—I thought—will be that way, life lives together with the damp odor of the land of the dead, attention with inattention, passionate leaps of the heart along with abrupt losses of meaning. But it won’t be worse than the past.”

"I wanted the flat certainty of normal days, even though I knew all too well that a frenetic movement upward endured in my body, a darting, as if I had seen an ugly poisonous insect at the bottom of a hole and every part of me were still retreating, my arms and hands waving, feet kicking. I have to relearn—I said to myself—the tranquil pace of those who believe they know where they’re going and why."

"...I’m losing myself and if I don’t catch hold what will happen to the children?"

"No, I thought, squeezing the rag and struggling to get up: starting at a certain point, the future is only a need to live in the past. To immediately redo the grammatical tenses."

Hey, who thinks Olga is a narcissist?

"And so even the very few people who still tried to help me withdrew in the end: it was difficult to put up with me. I found myself alone and frightened by my own desperation."

This was supposed to be for the RBC book group, but it got abandoned. Now I'm curious.

back in my female malaise era

Women without love lose the light in their eyes, women without love die while they are still alive.

“I heard the wave of wind colliding with the trees in the park, or the mute darkness of the night, barely illuminated by the street lamps, whose luminous crowns were obscured by the foliage. In those long hours I was the sentinel of grief, keeping watch along with a crowd of dead words.”

È dura leggere un libro quando ti ritrovi nei panni di un personaggio insopportabile. L’unica nota positiva di questo libro è Ilaria.

Feeling lonely, title seemed fitting IDK LOL

“But a favor has to be answered by another favor, and the courtesies became a chain that imprisoned us.”

Mario io ti odio e tu morirai

“I was like the lump of food that my children chewed without stopping…”

“I was the mother to be violated, not a lover”

This needs to be required reading I’m not kidding.

thank you miss Eleanor!

Voy lenta con este audiolibro porque la protagonista angustia; ese desamparo, esa inquina, que se puede comprender al sentirse traicionada, pero se me está haciendo bola.

Resumen del libro: una mujer desciende por un espiral de locura y autodestrucción a partir del abandono de su marido.

Por momentos me resulta desesperante leer tanta misoginia interna, señora LEVÁNTESE. Espero que en algún momento lo haga por dios.

Girl, stand up immediately what is this