Dustin Bertram > Recent Status Updates

“How many times has he told this story? To the police? To reporters? Anyone willing to listen? It has a well-worn feel, like leather, a narrative that's softened itself with each retelling.

It's all he has now. He's wrapped himself up in this story, as if it's a protective blanket.”

“But reading discourse about myself is like prodding at a sore tooth.

I’m compelled to keep digging, just to see how far the rot goes.”

Finally my first R.F. Kuang

I have no idea what is happening

Bret r u ok?

Ugh how does TJ do it😩

“I remember thinking that for the first time in my life I was so disoriented it felt like I was melting, dissolving in on myself, becoming another person, and then disappearing into nothing, the incredible shrinking boy.”

You had me at gay trauma

Klune 🥹🥰

“Anoshe”

Lila’s chest tightened at the word. It was what Arnesians said when they parted. Lila said nothing because goodbyes in any language felt like surrenders, and she wasn’t willing to do that.

“You’re my best thief.”


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“This is why I run.

Because caring was a thing with claws. It sank them in, and didn’t let go. Caring hurt more than a knife to the leg, more than a few broken ribs, more than anything that bled or broke and healed again.

It was a bone that didn’t set, a cut that wouldn’t close.”

“Kell swept Lila up into his arms, amazed at her lightness. She took up so much space in the world—in his world-it was hard to imagine her being so slight. In his mind, she was made of stone.”


I’m not emotionally prepared for this

Book club book is already f*kd up

No you don’t get it I’m obsessed

Ready to be delighted

“If I had a heart to give, it would be all yours”

Required Reading apparently

Been waiting 4 years for this 👏

“I'm not interested in turning people into deities, fixing them into positions from which they're unable to stray

And so I hope my feelings for Shiba, even though they contained a kind of adoration, did not resemble the love with which men smother and contain women, pinning them down like butterflies on a board, with their names underneath in elegant calligraphy.”

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