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still having such a blast :'] i missed this world so much

hold FINALLY came in. vibrating w excitement rn

of its time but,,, so so So much fun :'] unbelievably nostalgic

"i have consoled myself with the thought that wanting your mother to find something worthwhile in you was probably the most normal condition i would ever find myself in."

"people pitch themselves, now and then, at a frequency i cannot hear. i imagined a pack of dogs gathered outside in the street, their bodies still and ears pricked as they listened in, too, nodding solemnly along with the decision conveyed."

"what would it be to live without the laborious work of translation, to hear and instantly know what you have heard?"

Exactly...

anotha one. feels like Those Type of Quotes are nonstop atp

"my mind is an electrical and involuntary force. everything touches many, many other things, and these points of intersection are the only way in which the world can be properly understood"

"i am a stutter of a person, a glitch that flickers; i am the air blurred by the summer sun"

"contemplation, i knew first hand, was the beginning of devotion"

"the gods are fallen and all safety gone. and there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. it is a tedious job to build them back up again; they never quite shine. and the child's world is never quite whole again. it is an aching kind of growing."

"in the Church, i felt, one began from the principle of original sin, one's guilt assumed from the get-go. from childhood i felt always on some precipice, reaching for a state of grace, ever unattainable to me, always on the point of falling."

okay. okay fine i'm giving it another shot (this time with the text in front of me, considering fantasy is perhaps the worst possible genre for audiobook exclusively)

good god. i’m already so swept off my feet, charmed not only by each character but dostoyevsky himself, perhaps more than even in tbk. 2025 truly is his year, in my books. (i keep smiling at work, almost blowing my cover!!!! this narrator is so me it’s nearly unbearable!!!!!)

am i crazy??? is there something ppl are getting from this?? what started as something i could've had fun with has quickly become a not-quite-as-strong-as-hate-read but something i guess i have to keep going with because i'm vaguely intrigued and can't help myself from laughing at. unlikely i'll earnestly enjoy it atp.

oh BABY we're getting into catholicism now... lfg

this chapter is called "dinosaur cannibals?" i think i've found the perfect book

who up provoking a raised eyebrow in some circles

(i keep forgetting to update :/ listening b4 bed will do that ig)

having SO much fun w this

crying hard :(
oh, complex sibling dynamics, you will always hurt me in a uniquely deeply satisfying way. this is sally's best work to date, undoubtedly.

a guy in here speaks like kendall roy if he was a redditor nerd from the pseudo-left

this man is a freak. jury's still out on /pos or /neg

"she recognized the religion's retributive justice in her bones. she was surprised, though, to find that she'd unconsciously kept that belief system. she would have thought that she'd evolved past the guilt that was laced through Catholicism and her childhood . . . but apparently she had bought into that retaliative framework."

oh!

little women parallels... i'm afraid...

if the conversation surrounding mental illness doesn't change soon, i'm gonna have to dnf

william reminds me so much of who my dad might've been in young adulthood; it keeps making me teary

:P