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“brother and boy. family and stranger. friend and enemy. it is messed up, but not because we’re splitting him apart in our minds. it’s messed up because we have to.”

“it’s as though the stars are breaking apart in the sky, nothing but dark underneath.” this sentence is really beautiful, but i wish there were less sentences relating to stars - it would make sentences like this stand or more. like, we get it, lol

“she is not crying, she says, she is moisturizing.” SAME GIRL LOL

“...wasn’t it preposterous that the women should compare themselves to animals, wind, sea, etc? isn’t there a human precedent, some person in whom we can see ourselves reflected back to ourselves?”

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“if he be mr hyde...i shall be mr seek.” LMAO WHAT AHAHAHZHSJBDFKCNF

boy i am BORED

WHY IS THERE SO MUCH TELLING AND NO SHOWING??? it’s like Brown wants to skip all the “boring” parts to go into the exciting scenes, but like, developing the characters and story is important too??!!!?!?

did this guy just compare a random women’s “beauty” to his wife’s lmao ( apparently the women are not valuable unless they are beautiful???)

i don’t...hate it......but i also don’t....love it........ya know..

“the shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: i didn’t know why i felt so tainted, and worthless, and wrong - only that i did...”

pretty interesting so far, though nothing is really happening. i have a few guesses about where this might go

pretty interesting so far, though nothing is really happening. i have a few guesses about where this might go

this is like “mean girls” meets “the secret history” lmao, but funnier and not as obsessively academic

i already have a pretty good idea how this might end 😬

“i got my husband to install a tracking app on your cell phone” LMAO WTF IS THIS BOOK just want to DMF this hot garbage BLAH !!!

“i got my husband to install a tracking app on your cell phone” LMAO WTF IS THIS BOOK just want to DMF this hot garbage BLAH !!!

“at that moment, for the first time ever, i felt i’d become a part in the machine of society. i’ve been reborn, i thought. that day, i actually became a normal cog in society.”

i honestly, genuinely think that people who disliked “the secret history” because of its unlikable characters, would in turn LOVE this book bc i have already fallen in love with 4 different characters, Theo being my absolute FAVORITE. wow - Tartt???! has RANGE. 😩😩 we stand this legend 👏🏻 QUEEN🗣🗣

“so - moral of the story is, who knows where it all will take you?”

“it was culture as class performance, literature fetishized for its ability to take educated people on emotional journeys, so that they might afterward feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”

“their life...which they had imbued with such drama and significance, just ended like that with no conclusion, and it was never to be picked up again, never in the same way.”

i suspect that if O’Leary were to write a sequel, it would probably involve the brother (which would be v cute and 10/10 would read it)

uh yeah i almost GAGGED

uh yeah i almost GAGGED