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“A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might’ve happened. Only you didn’t tell it like it was; you told it like you thought it should have been.” Beautiful.

I haven’t finished a book in a while… scared how far down this hole of struggling to commit to books will take me

“All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense different without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half hogs are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.”
STRAIGHT. BARS! “Love, having become a god, becomes a demon.”

“Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or happiness to the future.”
Yes, I just updated after a page. I could update every half page, realistically. It’s one of those books that was written for me in my stage of life.

“If we let ourselves. 24 shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”

Russell Connell, author who believed anyone could get rich if they worked hard enough:
“To sympathize with a man whom Gof had punished for his sins… is to do wrong… let us remember there is no poor person in the United Stares who was no made poor by his own shortcomings.”
Let me tell you this, 19th century Joel Olsteen: *clears throat, looks at my notes* “Cap 🧢🧢🧢”

“Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader, and it is the only ever in the world where two strangers can meet in terms of absolute intimacy.”

“Antagonism developed between these Irish Catholics weavers and native-born Protestant skilled workers over issues of religion. In May 1844 there were Protestant-Catholic riots in Philadelphia; nativist rioters destroyed the weavers’ neighborhoods and attacked a Catholic Church.”
Jesus, looking to God the Father in heaven: “alright… forgive them… they REALLY know not what they do, I guess… bruh.”

This book is ridiculous. Good, but ridiculous— in length, in depth, and in characters. I found a character list of the main characters. There are 46 of them.
Next time I read this, I’m dragging around a white board to keep track of all this.

“There would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers.” -Kurt Vonnegut, 1969
Alas, if only greenhouse gases had a similar effect on wars as it does glaciers, then climate change could be a twisted quid pro quo.

Had to stop mid chapter on “Indian Removal,” as it was politely called, to say this.
Andrew Jackson, your mother’s a hoe. She was probably fine, but you some hot garbage.

Concerning Lucy Stone, a first-wave feminist speaker:
“She was one of the first to refuse to give up her name after marriage. She was “Mrs. Stone.” When she refused to pay taxes because she was not represented in the government, officials took all her goods in payment, even her baby’s cradle.”

Concerning indentured servants and their passage to America, Germany’s Gottlieb Mittelberger writes in 1750, “a women about to give birth and unable to deliver under the circumstances,” the circumstances being months at sea, “was pushed through one of the portholes into the sea.”

Brb, gonna go check the Dream Mine’s price per share on Robinhood.
“I believe that Satan has a hold of you.
I believe that the Lord God has sent me here.
And I believe that in 1978 God changed his mind about black people.” — I Believe, The Book of Mormon musical

RIP my reading challenge. I’m literally finishing Les Miserables after this. Book is gas tho

For love made me and fed me and kept me in better days? I have only loved you for your beauty as you once loved me for mine in the days before the world moved on…you scar me with nails and put burning drops of quicksilver in my nose; you have set the animals on me, so you have, and they have eaten of my softest parts Yet still I love you and would serve you and even bring the magic again, if you would allow me.”

Beginning of the end :(

My sister recommended this book to me after seeing it on Tik-Tok (or Book-Tok? Idk I don’t use it). I suspect she wants to know the story but doesn’t want to spend 300 pages reading it. Booky Big Brother is the solution to the problem!

I was so mad at Verity that I set my update to pg 1010 instead of 110. My hatred for Verity might span beyond the physical capacity of this book, who knows

#cancelveritycrawford

Everyone has told me to read Hoover, let’s see what she’s all about.

Does anyone have advice on reading epic poetry? 1st book of 12 was a little hard to read. Maybe I need to ask the coffee shop workers to turn off the music and force everyone to be silent as I read list of obscure villians, demons, and hellish creatures from ancient mythologies.

I think I’m starting to bother the people I live with by giggling every time I read a paragraph they can’t see.