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Not Dorian going to the opera right after 💀

is there anything worse than buying a second hand classic online and receiving the Wordsworth version?😭😭😭

RAHHHH

“All I want to do is look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to.”

Oh I’m eating this shit up!!! Also I think Oscar Wilde is the one who started the “olive-coloured” skin thing. He’s in my bad books for that!!!

God, I’ve hardly had a moment to read. I’ve decided I’m going to use all the time that I would spend looking at screens looking at a book instead. This phone is actually taking over my life.

“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

“Four hundred years in the West had certainly turned me into a Westerner - there was no way around that. But four hundred years in the West had also failed to bleach me - there was no way around that, either - and my history in the West had, for its daily effect, placed me in such mortal danger that I had fled, all the way around the corner, to France.“

“… I had been away too long. It was not only that I could not readjust myself to life in New York — it was also that I would not: I was never going to be anybody’s nigger again.”

Too tired to read more today. I was going to read the outsider… then realised it was the same as the stranger?! A longer version though?! 😔😔😔 if I’d have known I would have read the outsider instead, but I’m glad to be back with James.

Idk what to read next… 🥲🥲🥲

Why is it that when I have money I can’t think of any books I want at that moment, but when I don’t have money there’s a hundred books I want to get…

We’re never going to escape this.

ooohhhhh i just know this is gonna mess me upppppppp

I’m ok I’m ok I’m ok I’m ok

I want to finish this today but I don’t know if I’ll have time. I have a feeling it’s going to be YET ANOTHER bittersweet ending. But that’s fine. I’ll just cry alone…

RAAAAH!!! FORGET HIM LARK!!! HE DOESNT DESERVE YOU 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

This is making me want to cry over characters who were never even alive when the book started!!! This man! I think I’m gonna read some psychological horror after this because omg my novel fixation on the AIDS epidemic, although fascinating, has made me cry too much for a while.

7/11 out of this weeks second hand book grab. A couple more from James Baldwin because I’ve been thinking about him a lot again recently, and probably the last of the books I’ll be reading on the AIDS epidemic for a while as well as a couple of new names.
I think I want to make it my mission to collect enough books so I have something to read no matter what until I die. Who wants the inheritance?

Holy shit… Holleran bringing me to tears again. I love Sutcliffe. He reminds me of Sutherland—who I loved, too. I really hope Lark can be happy. He’s too much like me. I don’t want us to both end up the same.

“Then it starts to rain again, and he thinks that even in the midst of sorrow, justified or not justified, self-indulgent or un-sought, there is the sound of rain on the roof—the beauty and wonder of life.”

:( Lark…

“One would think that not having AIDS—or not being paralyzed-would be enough to make you awaken every day in a state of bliss. But no, it's not.
You still want a ten-inch dick, a full head of hair, two more decades of unblemished youth, and everyone to want you when you walk into the bar.”