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“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Every living creature knows it. This guarding instinct in parents, their reasonable and excessive fear, is a selfishness. A terror, at last, of their own capacity for suffering, which ends up leaving their children unready for life’s brutality and more vulnerable to its assaults.”

“Oh my God you are a child. If we leave you alone here, you’ll freeze to death, you’ll starve to death.” And so on. It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

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Screaming, shidding, throwing up. Thank you, NetGalley and Erewhon Books for the ARC e-copy! If you need me, I'll be devouring this.

I’m hooked this is great I love badass women

Wow men are the worst (we knew this)

Been awhile since I read a book cover to cover so doing that now :)

Am I stupid? I'm so lost. But I want to keep reading!

I won’t lie I have no idea what’s going on

“It would do no good to describe Tarare’s pain, which is enormous and in every part of his body, because in pain we are all alone, latched into the flesh, where the blood whistles and cells knit and unknit themselves.”

The word economy in this writing is insane. The prose is so sparse but it’s taking me forever to fully digest each sentence

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Lmaooooo where do I get off thinking I’m gonna understand a book that starts with a discussion on theoretical physics? I’m too stupid for this shit

Y’all know that rare feeling of reading a first page and just knowing in your bones, “this book is going to change the way I view the world”? Yeah, this got me there. Loving this so far