ellieeeeeee's Reviews (238)

89. As if we could scrape the color off the iris and still see. 

so weird 

can't wait to reread this tbh so interesting and well written 

andy serkis really made it feel like you were tolkien's child being told a bedtime story 

heartbreaking story of dementia and loss 

"Eros is always a story in which lover, beloved and the difference between them interact."
so informative, so many sources referenced throughout to show every possible angle of Eros. 

feeling very wtf did i just read

"Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one's sense of one's own reality."
"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time."
"It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death—ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life." 

gorgeous 
"it takes time to live. like any work of art, life needs to be thought about. mersault thought about his life and exercised his bewildered consciousness and his longing for happiness in a train compartment which was like one of those cells where a man learns how to know what he is by what is more than himself."

what the fuck