natalie

“I've been tricking myself, thinking there was some reason for all of it, thinking that consciousness was a miracle when it's really a burden, thinking that to be alive was wondrous when it's really a terror.”

YOU CANT LEAVE ME HANGING LIKE THAT MAGGIE

HE WOULD KNOW HER HANDWRITING ANYWHEREEEEE FUCK YOU GABRIELLE WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS

were we all reading the same book?? why does everyone think this is genius??

dnfing the audiobook @ 60% because hearing “FR... SA... FR... SA...” repeatedly for at least 5 minutes made me want to rip all of my hair out

the book was lowkey boring anyway

to be honest feyre should have been eaten by that worm

i'm convinced everyone who is rating this one star is looking for attention

what kind of name is jaxon tyrus rafferty

pig become man

❝She looked directly up into the northern lights and she wondered if those cold-burning spectres might not draw her breath, her very soul, out of her chest and into the stars.❞

NOAHHHHHH MY BELOVED

WAR WAR WAR

anne carson once said:

“why are you full of rage? because you are full of grief.”

and i think of james when i read that quote

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“All I can really say for sure is that I've never felt the mystery of the future so much: sense of the hourglass running out, fast-running fever of time. Forces unknown, unchosen, unwilled.”

I wasn't planning on giving this book five stars simply because of how long it took me to read it, but as I was thinking about it I realized just how good this book was. There is an insane amount of detail and it was incredibly well written. Despite the length of the book, it was enjoyable and the characters were so thought out that they felt real.

So I am once again thanking Donna Tartt

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i hate alex

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could've been four stars if not for the cringey “winces” “whispers” etc

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“That's how life is, what it gives with one hand one day, it takes away with the other.”

let me just say this was hard to understand as this Jose guy can make a sentence last for pages. comma comma comma comma

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“everybody freeze” is the funniest shit ever i can't believe it was written

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“I am fading away. Slowly but surely. Like the sailor who watches the home shore gradually disappear, I watch my past recede. My old life still burns within me, but more and more if it is reduced to the ashes of memory.”

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“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself was a bad dream.”

was the n word reeeeeally necessary?

literally ass

i guessed the plot twist Riley

“We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”[a:Anthony Doerr 28186 Anthony Doerr https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1417812584p2/28186.jpg]'s writing is unique in the way that it is both beautiful and able to get the point across. Many times I find that authors focus too much on prose and are unable to tell the story simultaneously. However, Doerr can do both. The novel takes place over the course of years, from the beginning of the war to the end. The two main characters, Marie-Laure and Werner, are very young when the story begins, and we see them as they grow into teenagers. Marie-Laure is a blind girl living in France with her father, who works at the National Museum of Natural History. Doerr does a great job at bringing their relationship to life. The two of them travel to her great-uncle's house in Saint-Malo where they stay throughout the course of the war. She has a love of shells, which is a reflection of the author's own passions. Werner is a german boy with a gift for science, particularly radios. He is able to fix them in quite little time. Because of this gift, he is placed in a special school where he is some distance away from his sister Jutta, who is younger than him and quite attached. We can see the effect his going away has on her and how it will later shape her life when she never sees him again after he is assigned to the war. Reading this book will make you want to know more, and due to the short chapters, you will keep turning the page. Doerr's attention to detail is admirable; he has a brilliant way of telling stories.

i admire ms. yanagihara for being able to write a book like this but i also question her well-being