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“if you choose to make one thing happen in a book, a thousand other things do not. When I read, it's those thousand other things that I wonder about.”

rip meg benham you would have LOVED ao3

“'Why am I condemned to believe in you for all eternity? / Do you think I won't kiss your footprints when you've left? I can't tear you out of my heart, Nikolay Stavrogin!'”

“Pyotr Stepanovich chattered away. (Nikokay Vsevolodovich hadn't said a single word.)” 💀💀💀💀💀

pyotr adhd coded as hell

“But, looking back now, I see that your own life can be a story you tell yourself, that you can be both the person reading and the thing being read.”

2 more stories down and i'm still :/ idk his writing is too simple, i think. there's barely any description, just 99% tell, and when there is it's very standard, doesn't bring you into the emotion of the scene at all. simple, straight forward writing can work, but it still takes effort. it doesn't feel like any effort was put into these stories to make them feel creepy, make the reader feel unnerved . . very bland

shanks on the cover with a GOAT over his form???? IKTR 💅 my 🐐 fr

2 stories in and so far i'm a little . . . underwhelmed? i guess. not bad, per se, just no *spark*. but!! i'll be giving the entire collection a try before i make any final judgements, so fingers crossed i connect with some of the other stories~

“She's only met you once, you fool. Why should she bother about you?
Yes, but I did save her life.
That means it belongs to her. Not to you.”

🙌

“Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. / Individual errors in judgment can usually be corrected. As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around. But [they] are like parasites that transform the host, change form and continue to thrive.”

“One of them had drawn a knife, which he waved in little cirlces in the air. He advanced slowly towards Mort, while the other two hung back to provide immoral support.”

💀💀💀💀

“'How do you get all those coins?' asked Mort.

𝐈𝐍 𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐒.”

ba-dum tss!

“This is the bright candlelit room where the lifetimers are stored – shelf upon shelf of them, squat hourglasses, one for every person, pouring their fine sand from the future into the past. The accumulated hiss of the falling grains makes the room roar like the sea. / This is the owner of the room, stalking through it with a preoccupied air. His name is Death.”

LET'S GOOOOO!!!

“On my fifteenth birthday I'll run away from home, journey to a far-off town, and live in a corner of a small library.”

— and a random boy named crow??? oh, my interest is PIQUED!

about time i read this run tbh~

kinda in love with samantha and her whole "not involved but here for the drama and also rolling my eyes at it" thing

another book gifted by my nan.

so far jane is giving me gay vibes i cannot lie

3/4 of the way in and i may be at my limit i can't do it anymore, i've sighed, groaned, cringed, and rolled my eyes more times in the last few hours than i do in a week. this genre just isn't for me i'm sorry nan 🙏

i was not built for these kind of books. i fear if i roll my eyes one more time they're gonna get stuck

my nan gifted this to me for christmas, and while it's not my kinda read, i WILL feel an insurmountable level of guilt if i don't even try to read it, so, here we go~