I Will Elaborate And That's a Threat✨’s Reviews > Bluets > Status Update

Seriously thinking of dnfing this. Besides, one of the goals this year was to dnf more books.

While I'm reading this book all I'm thinking abt is how I would rate this, if I should dnf it becuz of how painfully mid it is and if I do choose to read it fully, should I buy a physical copy as a trophy??? Maybe add my annotations in it as well??? But then again, I've always wanted my bookshelves to only hold books that are dear to me. So many questions, not one related to the words on whichever page I'm on.

...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.

“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.

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...

“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.