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i think i have a feeling about what happened to Ben....

semester is finally over and my reading slump has been cured :)))

"self-sabotage is not a way we hurt ourselves. it's a way we try to protect ourselves."

oh wow…. this is getting so interesting

i despiseee callum

democratic party is so pathetic

“But Kazu still goes on believing that, no matter what difficulties people face, they will always have the strength to overcome them. It just takes heart.”
i don’t know if i’ll recover from this book

“But giving birth to you is the only thing I will ever be able to do for you.”

oh i had really really hoped i didn’t guess correctly, but i did. what’s the reason for knowing what was going to happen if i’m still sitting here sobbing :((((

“If your father could see from his box and see you crying every day, what do you think he would think? I think it would make him sad. You know how much your father loved you. Don’t you think it would be painful for him to see the unhappy face of someone he loved? So why don’t you smile every day so that your father can smile from his box?“
i haven’t stopped crying

how many times have i cried reading this book? yes

“I’m the older sister, though I look younger if you ask me,”

it’s true

hmmm this is…

“Every time you love, pieces of you break off and get replaced by something you steal from someone else. It seems like it's the right shape but it's slightly different every time, so that eventually, very very quietly and over days and days and days, you are transformed into something unrecognizable, and it happens so slowly you don't even notice, like shedding scales and making new ones.”

“If this is what it is to burn, he thought, then I will be worth more as scattered ash than any of my unscathed pieces.”

“He didn’t blame her for not seeing it. He blamed everyone else for letting her forget.”

“The thing about women and clothes was, in Regan's mind, that nothing was ever a permanent expression; it wasn't any sort of commitment to being this type of girl or that one, but purely today, I am.”