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Wouter van Noort is 58% done with Stay in the Light (The Watchers, #2)

The watchers may already be coming for her.

— Mar 15, 2025 12:41PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 51% done with Stay in the Light (The Watchers, #2)

The nightmares lingered like a fever long into the morning, when the earliest inklings of light called the crew to arms.

— Mar 15, 2025 05:58AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 44% done with Stay in the Light (The Watchers, #2)

Would the watchers take Mina's face too?
She imagined a hollow version of herself standing on a busy street corner, watching its many strangers like she used to, only now with the coldest and darkest of eyes.

— Mar 14, 2025 01:03PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 36% done with Stay in the Light (The Watchers, #2)

A collective sigh of disappointment sapped the energy from the tent. There was something down there. His eyes had only snared the slightest glimpse of it, but it was there.

— Mar 14, 2025 03:37AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 28% done with Stay in the Light (The Watchers, #2)

She sat back, staring at the laptop screen like a rectangular rift in her reality. 'No fucking way.'

— Mar 13, 2025 12:22PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 21% done with Stay in the Light (The Watchers, #2)

A million imaginary sounds hounded Mina in the silence of the moment. Even here -wherever here was- the watchers' screams were never far from her thoughts. And every day they grew that little bit closer. The coop's rules were still in effect. The cottage's door should already have been shut.

— Mar 13, 2025 03:46AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 14% done with Stay in the Light (The Watchers, #2)

Nothing had changed.
Monsters were real, only now they were everywhere.

— Mar 12, 2025 12:04PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 7% done with Stay in the Light (The Watchers, #2)

That last day in the city had yet to find its focus. It was as though Mina's mind had intentionally flicked a switch, some failsafe to keep her from revisiting those horrors before eventually there'd be no way to escape them. They're everywhere. They've been watching you.

— Mar 12, 2025 08:11AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 89% done with Love, Theoretically

This man, who was going to be the absolute worst part of my dream job, might still turn out to be the thing I want the most.

— Mar 11, 2025 09:51AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 78% done with Love, Theoretically

I try to cognitively reframe last night as two adults having casual fun, but my head is full of aggressive, intrusive, embarrassing thoughts that make it hard to concentrate on grading. As though the sheer nature of grading didn't do it on its own.

— Mar 11, 2025 03:42AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 71% done with Love, Theoretically

"There is no guarantee that..."
"There is no guarantee that we won't be suctioned off the surface of the earth by a demonically possessed vacuum cleaner."

— Mar 10, 2025 12:08PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 64% done with Love, Theoretically

I haven't told Cece where I'm going, because she's not home, and I'm physically unable to send her a text explaining that:
I. Am. Going. Out.
WithjacksmithTurner.

— Mar 10, 2025 09:24AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 57% done with Love, Theoretically

The morning light is blinding white, as painful as a million naked mole rats gnawing at my eyeballs.

— Mar 09, 2025 03:54PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 48% done with Love, Theoretically

I'm making my way through a wormhole to a separate point in space-time. A different timeline, in which I'm not a failure.

— Mar 08, 2025 01:35PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 40% done with Love, Theoretically

Have I been doing it all wrong? Maybe instead of getting people to think that I'm worth their time, I should stop giving a shit about them? Hmm. Food for thought.

— Mar 08, 2025 06:07AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 29% done with Love, Theoretically

It's complicated being a woman in STEM. Even more so when you're young and unproven. And even more so when you have a semi-pathological need to get along with others.

— Mar 07, 2025 01:33PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 21% done with Love, Theoretically

She studies me, serious for a moment. Then her face breaks into a fierce grin, and that - that is my tell. That's how I know who the me Monica wants is: a champion. Her tribute to the Hunger Games of physics. A gladiator to take on Jonathan Smith-Turner, the entitled STEMlord she despises.

— Mar 06, 2025 01:13PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 14% done with Love, Theoretically

It's not that I don't like teaching. It's just that ... I really dislike teaching. Really, really, really. I'm constantly drowning in the ever-swallowing quicksand of student emails, and I'm way too screwed up to shape young minds into anything that's not aberrant.

— Mar 05, 2025 02:07PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 6% done with Love, Theoretically

Easy peasy, photons squeezy.
Funny how my physics career and my people-pleasing career
started around the same time.

— Mar 05, 2025 06:35AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 87% done with The Song of Achilles

That night I lie in bed beside Achilles. His face is innocent, sleep-smoothed and sweetly boyish. I love to see it. This is his truest self, earnest and guileless, full of mischief but without malice. I stroke the soft skin of his forehead. I would untie him if I could. If he would let me.

— Mar 03, 2025 10:24AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 74% done with The Song of Achilles

Every last man. Fear sluiced through me. How could I not have thought of this? Of course I would be expected to fight. We were at war now, and all had to serve. Especially the closest companion of Aristos Achaion.

— Mar 02, 2025 10:48AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 67% done with The Song of Achilles

"Are you frightened?" I asked. The first call of a nightingale in the trees at our backs. "No," he answered. "This is what I was born for."

— Mar 01, 2025 09:53AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 59% done with The Song of Achilles

Later, Achilles sleeps next to me.He stirs and the air stirs with him, bearing the musk-sweet smell of his body. I think: This is what I will miss. I think: I will kill myself rather than miss it. I think: How long do we have?

— Feb 28, 2025 12:24PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 52% done with The Song of Achilles

We left that afternoon; there was no reason to linger.

— Feb 27, 2025 01:46PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 46% done with The Song of Achilles

In the stories, the gods have the power to delay the moon's course if they wish, to spin a single night the length of many. Such was this night, a bounty of hours that never ran dry.

— Feb 27, 2025 12:55AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 40% done with The Song of Achilles

I thought only of the small island flung out somewhere in front of me, and the fair-haired boy I hoped I would find there.

— Feb 26, 2025 07:33AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 34% done with The Song of Achilles

This, and this and this. We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.

— Feb 26, 2025 01:35AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 25% done with The Song of Achilles

I saw then how I had changed. I did not mind anymore that I lost when we raced and I lost when we swam out to the rocks and I lost when we tossed spears or skipped stones.
For who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty?

— Feb 25, 2025 11:11AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 16% done with The Song of Achilles

"There is no one like you," I said, at last. He regarded me a moment, in silence. "So?" Something in the way he spoke it drained the last of my anger from me. I had minded, once. But who was I now, to begrudge such a thing? As if he heard me, he smiled, and his face was like the sun.

— Feb 25, 2025 07:15AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 8% done with The Song of Achilles

This was how I came to be ten, and an orphan.
This is how I came to Phthia.

— Feb 24, 2025 11:07AM Add a comment

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