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Me gusta mucho como escribe la autora, es muy inteligente. En mismo párrafo puedes sentir alegría y tristeza de manera simultánéa.

Creo que es uno de mis libros favoritos de la vida :)

insurmountable grief

Depressive

picked this up at kino, hopefully it’s worth it missed out on reading han kang & ocean vuong

“I’m either too much or too little. I’m terrible at dispensing the right amount of myself.”

Cant decide what book I want to read first (women in translation month is my fav obvi)

This is sad

God…

I thought this book was set in Brazil but it’s set in the Netherlands!

eww why are we talking about donald trump so much

Rereading this in the original Dutch, as I happened to obtain a copy of it at Scheltema Amsterdam!

love how it's written

more like what i'd rather not read about am i right 🥱

Mag es sehr!

this is boring lol

My mother said that her son had died of a sickness, as if he hadn’t chosen to leave us. I knew that depression was a sickness. Maybe it was the depression that sent him into the water. It had told my brother that he wasn’t the one who was sick but life was. Being the one who leaves guarantees that you won’t be the one who is left. My mother has never been left. She was gone long before I was born.

I acted all giggly and coy but on my way downstairs, I wished his building would collapse so I could disappear under the rubble.

If you tell yourself, I’m going to remember this moment for the rest of my life, then you will remember it. You have to focus on your thoughts while simultaneously absorbing everything around you but if you do this, then the moment will stay with you forever, no matter how insignificant it may seem.

The fact that we weren't identical was something I'd long considered a handicap, a consequence of our premature birth, even once I understood the difference between identical and fraternal twins. We could have grown even closer in that ninth month.

Sometimes anger can be an expression of sadness and a way to push people away.

… as someone who is close enough to their younger sibling to where he is practically one of my closest friends, this book stiiiinnngs. However, it does so in a way that I don’t want to put it down.

DNF @ 36%

omg, this is insufferable. The narrator just goes off on tangents... this reads like one long diary entry with Wikipedia info dumps.

This book is going to ruin me

"I don’t know if your brother really chose to die, said Elza. Depression can make a person incredibly despondent."

Keep talking about these shif not trump

Why rhe fuck she always talking about trump why the fuck what the fuck is the point? This is fuckinh disturbing.

"Yes, he was wearing nothing. Absolutely nothing? No, just a loincloth. A little cloth in front of his loins. And that’s it? Yes, a little cloth. Nothing else. We’d get so excited by the idea of this that we couldn’t stop laughing. "


???????

ALSO STEM people once said "In a way, emotions are older than intelligence."

Stem people once said: Dyson explained to journalist Wim Kayzer what he’d come to understand after a long scientific career was that life was about emotions, people and family.

"After 9/11, someone had written: I hope that none of you felt any pain when everything collapsed and it was raining bodies because that feels unimaginable. But most people went with: There are no words for this. Or shorter still: No words. If you couldn’t think of anything better to say than no words, then we felt it was best not to say anything at all." Agreeing.