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...before blue became a “holy” colour—which had to do with the advent of ultramarine in the twelfth century, and its subsequent use in stained glass and religious paintings—it often symbolized the Antichrist.

“Drinking when you are depressed is like throwing kerosene on a fire,” I read in another self-help book at the bookstore. What depression ever felt like a fire? I think, shoving the book back on the shelf.

This might be one of the few lines by the author herself that I agree with.

“I just don’t feel like you’re trying hard enough,” one friend says to me. How can I tell her that not trying has become the whole point, the whole plan?

Oh... This reminds me of a specific scenario.

“How clearly I have seen my condition, yet how childishly I have acted,” says Goethe’s sorrowful young Werther. “How clearly I still see it, and yet show no sign of improvement.”

Honestly, same.

Contrary to the previous book update (I do not want to name it because it would be rude to talk shit about it on another book's update), I am absolutely loving this one so far! I don't necessarily love ll the characters' actions but I am loving literally everything else.

One of the last times you came to see me, you were wearing a pale blue button-down shirt, short-sleeved. I wore this for you, you said. We fucked for six hours straight that afternoon...

I do not think I love purple as much as I thought I did, because I would probably refrain from fucking my ex for 6 hrs straight if they came o me in a pale purple shirt and said they wore it for me...

Despite not really being fond of the previous volumes, I am definitely still going to finish this because I need the tea between Akemi Keiichi and Itome!

“When our companion fails us we transfer our love instantaneously to a worthy object,” wrote Thoreau during his bitter falling-out with Emerson, unwittingly offering a cogent explanation of how and why so many songwriters have personified blue as the one friend they can count on.

I think it really says something about a book when your favourite lines are the ones where the author quotes other people.

"After my friend’s accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but
it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain."

I am literally just copy pasting things I'm highlighting. And I feel like I should apologize for spamming people... I'm so sorryyy

She says (kindly) that she thinks we sometimes weep in front of a mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair. Can a reflection be a witness?...)

If you’re lonely, there’s a guy on Craigslist two blocks away who says he has an hour to kill and a dick longer than a donkey’s. He has posted a photograph to prove it.

A generous offer, but I'm afraid I'd have to refuse. That's not quite the solution I'm looking for.

I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do.

That hits a little too close to home...😃

"I made a map, I used coloured pins, etc. But I had no money. So I applied for grant after grant, describing how exciting, how original, how necessary my exploration of blue would be. In one application, written and sent late at night to a conservative Ivy League university, I described myself and my project as heathen, hedonistic, and horny. I never got any funding."

“I love to gaze at a promising-looking cock,” writes Catherine Millet in her beautiful sex memoir, before going on to describe how she also loves to look at the “brownish crater” of her asshole and the “crimson valley” of her pussy, each opened wide—its colour laid bare—for the fucking.

Interesting...

Why am I reading so many sugar-daddy is books nowadays? This is like my 3rd book in a row without me expectin it to have that sort of thing involved 😂😂😂

Sally Rooney always writes about horny yet sexless (I don't mean any disrespect, I just can't think of a better word.) 25+ yr olds that have slight existential crises and are bad at keeping relationships with people most important to them.

Telemachus: "I kept it close because I was ashamed. I did not want you to hear how she had preferred my father all along"

Circe: (thinking) She is a fool. But I did not say that.

Girly... Don't act like you didn't feel the same way. Did you not do the same thing??? Do you not have a literal child with this man's father???

I'm so close to finishing this book and I'm so tired of it. But I gotta keep going.😖 Just a little bit left.

With all due respect, does Circe have to sleep with every man that comes into contact??? with her?

Never in my life did I think I would say this, but reading about Telemachus makes me want to wear an apron and become a housewife. Making soups and broths, planting herbs in a small garden and being sweet to my patient husband that rears sheep and goes around fixing small things around the house.

Is Telemachus an INTP? He reminds me of a character in the anime I'm watching😂 (I mean he's adorable)

Mommy, come pick me up please, I'm scared. I don't like Odysseus anymore.

Stopppp😭 I wanna hug Telemachus and cryyyy

In the physical copy. this is page 241... anywho...


Maybe I'm biased because I'm also incredibly naive, but I really like Telegonus' way of dealing with life. He went with pure intentions to Ithaca, confessed to the wrongdoing despite his guilt, and even brought back the queen and prince when they asked without asking them questions. (Continued in comments)

The Fates were laughing at me, at Athena, at all of us. It was their favorite bitter joke: those who fight against prophecy only draw it more tightly around their throats.

How ironic, I love and hate this scene...