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Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
4.0

giovanni deserved better!!!! david, i hope you die alone :) you are an awful person :) i have no idea why giovanni loved you :) also hella is a queen and i hope she lived a glorious life after leaving david.

anyway, here are some quotes i liked:

"People are full of surprises even for themselves."

"'There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain.'"

"What a long way, I thought, I've come--to be destroyed."

"'Maybe everything bad that happens to you makes you weaker,' said Giovanni, as though he had not heard me, 'and so you can stand less and less.'"

"'I don't see what's so hard about being a woman. At least not as long as she's got a man.'
'That's just it,' said she. 'Hasn't it ever struck you that that's a sort of humiliating necessity?'"

"'It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.'"

"He could, indeed, have done with Guillaume anything at all--but he could not do anything about being Giovanni."