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Stopping for the night bc i’m exhausted from annotating and picking up white nights, which i will not be annotating.

“Do you think of her, do you still catch yourself listening for her footsteps, for her voice, for the sound of her breathing at night, because I do, all the time. I still think that one day I might wake and she will be there, next to me, again; there will have been some wrinkle or pleat in time and we will be back to where we were, when she was living and breathing.”

annotating this was a bad decision

i love this book

“….that the man offering to buy her father’s sheepskins is a liar…..” YO

this is actually very romantic

“The desire to push himself away from these two people, to stride out of the room, to wrench open the front door and run into the street rose in the son, like sap in a tree. And yes, to strike his father, to do some harm to that body, to take his own fists and arms and fingers and give back to this man all that had been dealt to him.”