📚💬 “Sickness wasn’t sexy. And her disability was invisible—she wasn’t missing a limb or in a full-body cast. Her level of suffering seemed impossible for others to fathom. After all, everyone got headaches sometimes, like during coffee withdrawal or the flu. So she hid it.” Tia Williams, Seven Days in June
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📚💬 “What was it like, the luxury of not hurting?… she’d never stop fantasizing about being unsick.” Tia Williams, Seven Days in June
💬📚 “As a double major in creative writing and advanced melancholia, Eva had accidentally stumbled upon this life.” Tia Williams, Seven Days in June
So relatable.
Finished reading: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros 📚
🔖📚 Read In Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility You Can Be “Demure and Brat All at Once” by Samantha Silva (Literary Hub)
In the Dashwood family and in my family, it sometimes feels like the older sister feels like she has to be Sense so she can hold space for the younger sister to be Sensibility.
💬📚 “It’s easy to take one’s own enthusiasms for granted; it’s much harder to explain them.” Mary Beard, Talking Classics
💬📚 “I love the days when my body cooperates.” Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing
Finished reading: The Lost World A Novel by Michael Crichton 📚
It’s fascinating to me that Crichton wrote this at Spielberg’s behest, but the movie is so very different from this. Only a few scenes and characters from this are in it.
Finished reading: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton 📚
A great time and at its most interesting in the places where the movie departed from it.
💬📚📝 “I offer up the idea of the safety of a sentence for you right now, the possibility of a place to put yourself, to put your heart. A place to rest for a while from these feverish days.” Jami Attenberg, 1000 Words