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“I can’t help it. I still love him.”
“I loved him, too,” I said.
For just a moment, I thought I felt her waver. But then she looked away.
“I know you did,” she said. “But it’s not enough.”

donna tartt you will NEVER be nona the ninth

how do people read this and only take away from it “the aesthetics”, like 90% of this book is alcoholism and rich people being horribly out of touch from reality while narrator with no backbone begs for a sense of belonging they will never ever give him

“Well, if you wake up intending to murder someone at two o’ clock, you hardly think what you’re going to feed the corpse for dinner.”

this book is a comedy to me. also im sick today with no energy to do anything else but read this so lets see how far i can get

this is the nerdiest murder attempt ever

seeing a lot of death note parallels here….. henry and bunny are like L and kira if u really think about it….

help not this page of richard comparing his gaydar notes trying to deduce if the tension here is unrequited gay feelings like sir look inside yourself

normal sane people: you are going to die if you stay in an unheated warehouse for two months in winter in vermont

richard papen (huge idiot): that will not happen to me

yo these people are SO annoying my god

“And if love is a thing held in common, I suppose we had that in common, too, though I realize that might sound odd in light of the story I am about to tell.”

finally time to revisit the secret history as an adult and not as a 16 year old. my copy is worn from second hand and browned from sitting in the sun at my old apartment. seems fitting

I KNEW IT AND I CALLED IT

“But now the strange ships had come here on Barhu’s invitation; now everyone’s fate depended on her. She had everything she’d ever wanted as a child. She had the power to determine the outcome.

It was quite terrible.”

hold on….. talks of lobotomizing… the emperor is a lobotomized puppet….. i better be RIGHT about where this is going 👀

this book is buckwild one minute we’re doing trade negotiations for the cancer plague ship next minute baru almost fingers this girl and then immediately sees her parents for the first time in 15 years and her mom is like its rude to get cunt on your mother i was unprepared for this

UH 😨 I DIDNT SEE THAT COMING

i have dnd in 15 minutes wtf why would the book do this NOW

losing my mind about how this whole plan hinges on baru being a top like its Extremely important

admittedly im not liking this one as much as i loved the monster but im tempted to give it five stars anyway because it has a really cool orca whale in it

this book is insane like baru’s really gonna make her ex-beard divorce his wife so she can marry her and then divorce her so the wife can marry the king of stakhieczi??? not sure how i followed that but my god

of COURSE tain shir has 3 ex wives god shes the best character here

i dont know anything about naval warfare but girl i am living destroy those frigates and rudders!

two characters who i have always wanted to be allies are finalllly collaborating and i could not be happier :)

“You’re right. I just lied because I wanted to disagree with you.”

girl you are having a false miscarriage and seizing after doing coke and nearly putting brain cancer in your head all while talking with someone you KNOW you fucked over and feel really bad about BUT YOU’RE STILL ARGUING????? baru never change i love your messy ass

baru… girl i am BEGGING you to think of another way to destroy the masquerade other than “release a blood plague” my GOD

lets being this tome shall we. showing some restraint and not immediately rereading harrow please be proud of me

“The Lord do so and so to me, and add more also, if aught but death part me and thee. See you on the flip side, sugarlips.”

as it turns out, reading a book four times does not mean you will eventually not cry at the ending!