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“Sexual excitement nearly always made me feel sick. At home I could have taken a scalding bath, washed vigorously, but I was far from home. So I opened the car door and leaned out and scooped up a fistful of crystalline snow and stuffed it down the front of my trousers and into my underpants. It was very cold and very painful, but I left it there to melt as I drove. ”
(Page 81-82)

“Maybe that’s the big secret, that even though she hates her feelings, she’d still rather have them than not. Maybe the enormity of it all is that she hates the highs and the lows and she knows they’re Bad, that they’re Not Supposed To Happen, but she is not herself without them. She misses herself. She doesn’t really know who she is but she wants to know, she wants to find out, and she can’t do it with pills.”

there's nothing stopping me from rereading all my sjm throne of glass and acotar books rn.....i fear i may do exactly just that!

I want to read all these books so bad rn but I can’t read all of them at once 😭
In no particular order:
Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Beach Read - Emily Henry
The Enemy - Charlie Higson
Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens