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“She can never look right at his disease. It is always in her periphery, pulling at the corners of her understanding. She has never been able to find the right questions, to pin down his illness in a way she can understand.”

Omg I found my 10 yr old kindle (it still works!!!) and I remember this being soooo good lol let’s see if I was wrong 🤪

A book I’m reading physically?? And not on audio? Unheard of!

tbh i don’t remember as much from axiom’s end as i thought but i’ll keep chugging along

loving this so far!

“i think there’s something beautiful about being lucky enough to witness a thing on its way out.”

february is the month of h*rny

girl ✋🏻…i don’t wanna hear it

finally reading this!!

ice planet barbarians last year, fire blood dragon this year 🙏🏻

first kennedy ryan let’s gooooo

“she almost always feels attacked. what i cannot tell my mother is that she hurt me, and i’m angry but it doesn’t matter as much any longer. we all hurt one another. she couldn’t not have hurt me, she couldn’t not have made me angry. what i wish that i could tell her is that i’m finally okay with that.”

“it’s important, i think, to keep tradition alive of what once was. only if we’re able to compare the present condition to a benchmark can we see how far we’ve come or how much we’ve lost. i try to imagine ravens soaring above enormous old trees, circling the steaming canopy, their calls echoing through the hollow, getting lost in the valleys.”

“we were here to absorb the wildness of the place, yet we would somehow degrade it if we got too close.”

“can you imagine going to a place where no map exists? i would love to have lived back then.”
“i’m pretty sure they didn’t think it was great,” i said. “i’m pretty sure they were scared shitless. and i’m pretty sure they hate a lot of it.”

“while it is true that becoming an adult is hard and bloody and tastes like someone else’s spit in your mouth, actually /being/ an adult is completely rad. the world begins to make a new kind of sense. dreams are not destroyed so much as retrofitted by new perspectives. reality itself is changed by eyes that grow more open.”

“sometimes to write is only to see how words respond to new company, and that is all.”

“fear and shame are the backbone of my self-control. they are my source of inspiration, my insurance against becoming entirely unacceptable. they help me do the right thing. and i am terrified of what i would be without them. because i suspect that, left to me own devices, i would completely lose control of my life.”

2 years later and i’m finally getting around to this book and love it lol

this book should be required reading. corporations are evil as hell (though we all know that)

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finally getting around to this one!!