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❥ “𝑰 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒚, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌. 𝑰’𝒎 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆.” 

𝐊𝐚𝐝𝐞 & 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐲  ⁠♡

❥ “𝑰𝒕’𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑰’𝒎 𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒍. 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒐𝒔, 𝒔𝒆𝒕 𝒇𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆. 𝑵𝒐𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒍 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒎𝒆.”

Childhood lovers & lowkey enemies to lovers. Ohh i love this🤌🏻🫀
Plot: since it's a series so i am not really sure where the story is going for now. But i am loving it. My favourite part of this book is the childhood flashbacks, they are so cute and innocent- it breaks my heart thinking about what they could have had. Stacey Stacey Stacey I want to hug her and Kade has no idea what happened. :(
The chemistry, the romance, the smut wow!

♡ “𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧. 𝘐 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴, 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘯 𝘬𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘯𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘸. 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺. 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦. 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦. 𝘜𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘯’𝘵." ”

♡ “𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘪𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘮𝘦. 𝘠𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘯𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥. 𝘠𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦. 𝘈 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦.”

♡ “𝘐’𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥, 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘦𝘴. 𝘋𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘺?” 𝘐 𝘬𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘱𝘴.  “𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴.” 𝘐 𝘬𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯, 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘭𝘪𝘱, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘮, 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘱 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘫𝘢𝘸. “𝘐𝘧 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥, 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺. 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶.” 

♡  “ 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘯.”

♡ “𝘐’𝘮 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴, 𝘴𝘰 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴. 𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘨𝘰 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘵. 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘶𝘱 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘊𝘭𝘺𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩.” 
 “𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘦.” "

Can't blame Stacey for finding this cute. 🙏🏻


𝙁𝙖𝙫 𝙨𝙢𝙪𝙩 𝙨𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙨:

♡ “𝑶𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉,” 𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒖𝒏, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒔. “𝑺𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝑰 𝒇𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖.”

♡ “𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒃𝒊𝒌𝒆.” 𝑴𝒚 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏. “𝑰 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒌𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒉𝒆’𝒅 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒕.”

♡ “𝑰𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒎𝒆 –  𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒃𝒆𝒈.”
 “𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆𝒈? 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒖𝒔𝒔𝒚? 𝑽𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒔?”
 “𝑩𝒐𝒕𝒉.”

♡ “𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖,” 𝑰 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒖𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒊𝒓. “𝑳𝒆𝒕 𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒌𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖.”  

♡ “𝑲𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝒎𝒆,” 𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒚𝒔. “𝑰𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆𝒈, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰’𝒍𝒍 𝒇𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒆𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝒎𝒆, 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒚. 𝑷𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆”

Kade was downbad for that kiss😭🫀


The book kinda ended on a cliffhanger. Going to read the next book , I hope Stacey is okay.

🤍 “𝑯𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒂 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒏𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒉𝒚 𝒅𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒆𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍.” 

 "𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒖𝒕𝒆 𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒘𝒆 𝒅𝒐 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒏, 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒎𝒂𝒚 𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑮𝒐𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒅𝒐 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅.” "

The ending just left me speechless and miserable. Idk idk whyy but i was rooting for Delaura and Sierva Maria. 

In a way this book felt similar to love in the time of cholera, in that book Marquez says "to conclude once again that the symptoms of
love were the same as those of cholera." And in this book Marquez is hinting as if Love is one of the demons haunting our existence.

✧ “𝑰𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒏, 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓,” 𝑫𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅. “𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒍𝒍.” 

Was Delaura talking about love? Idk .

Delaura experiences a passionate love for Sierva, he's consumed by it, in a way possessed by it. 

✧“𝘏𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦, 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦 𝘫𝘰𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘦”

✧“𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒆?” 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅. 
𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒅. “𝑩𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉.”

There is a scene where she spits on him continuously and Delaura keeps praying for her to never stop. At other instance he eats a fucking cockroach to prove his love.... God! Each and every interaction b/w Delaura and Sierva was so passionate and beautiful... Idk how Marquez can write so beautifully..

✧“𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒆,” 
 “𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒕?”  
“𝑰 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒎𝒚 𝒆𝒏𝒅, 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝑰 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒚 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒆𝒏𝒅,” 𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅.  

✧ “𝑺𝒂𝒚 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒆,” 𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓: “𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅.” 
"𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒅. “𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒅𝒊𝒆,”
 "𝑺𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒃𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒆𝒔𝒉."  

✧“𝑵𝒐 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔.” 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑮𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒐: “𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒑𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉.” 

And  then they both die......

✧“𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒅𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒓.”


𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:

▫️“𝘐’𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩,”  

▫️“𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘺,"  

▫️“𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘢, 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘎𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘰, 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦: “𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘐 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯, 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦, 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘐 𝘥𝘪𝘦, 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘮 𝘐 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨.”

▫️ “𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘩,” 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘈𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘰. “𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨,” 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘴. “𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳.” 

▫️ “𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘧 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘴.”

▫️ “𝘊𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘺 𝘪𝘧 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨.” 

▫️ “𝘕𝘰 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵.”

▫️“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦” 

▫️ “𝘐𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘧𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘴.”

🤍🕯️" “𝑰’𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒚𝒐𝒖,” 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒔𝒉𝒆, 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒉𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓, “𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒔. 𝑰𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒖𝒏𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇-𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒖𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒇 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅, 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓—𝒂𝒔 𝑰 𝒅𝒊𝒅!” "

Dickens does it again, i remember reading 𝖠 𝗍𝖺𝗅𝖾 𝗈𝖿 𝗍𝗐𝗈 𝖼𝗂𝗍𝗂𝖾𝗌 and feeling miserable and the same thing happened again and yeah i cried this time. :(
The story follows a young boy, Pip who has great ambitions and expectations. I'll try to write the review with respect to his relationships with other people in the story.

🕯️𝐏𝐢𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 : i feel like this is one of the most important dynamics in the story, Pip falls in love with her at the first sight for her and continues to love her till the end. The love he has for Estella defies everything; logic and reason 

▫️ “ 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏, 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒆, 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒆, 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆, 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆. 𝑶𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒍𝒍; 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒏𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒊𝒕, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒏𝒐 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑰𝒏𝒇𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒇 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏.”

As for Estella i think she wanted to love him but she was simply not capable of doing so because of Miss Havisham's influence and Pip was aware of it, he knew it was a hopeless love.

▫️ " “𝑬𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂,” 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝑰, 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒏𝒐𝒘, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆, “𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚" ”

▫️ “𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘, 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒏𝒐 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆, 𝑬𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂. 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒆 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒐𝒏, 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒑𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝑰 𝒎𝒂𝒚 𝒃𝒆, 𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝑰 𝒎𝒂𝒚 𝒈𝒐. 𝑺𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍, 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖. 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑰 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆.” 

 ▫️“𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅, 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑰 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒐𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆—𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓, 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑𝒔, 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒔, 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒔, 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕, 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒅, 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒔, 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒂, 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒔. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒚 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆, 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍, 𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆. 𝑬𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂, 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒆, 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒍" 

Wow!!!  Please this has to be one of the best love confessions of all time. 

And i am happy Dickens gave them a happy ending ( ik it's ambiguous so I think they ended up together)

▫️" “𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕,” 𝑰 𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅. "  

▫️ 𝑰 𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒖𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆; 𝒂𝒏𝒅, 𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒏 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒈𝒐 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒇𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆, 𝒔𝒐, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒏𝒐𝒘, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆, 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒏𝒐 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒉𝒆𝒓. 

🕯️𝐏𝐢𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 : This is definitely the most important relationship in the whole story and for some reason it highly resonated with me. Magwitch had a very unhappy life, betrayed by everyone and rejected by the society, he finds solace in the kindness of young Pip and loves him dearly.

▫️“ 𝐈 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐡; 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤” 

▫️ “𝐈𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈 𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫, 𝐈 𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮. ”  

 Pip in his arrogance has a difficulty in accepting him in the beginning but eventually he learns dear to him and does everything he could to keep him safe and sane. The last chapters of them spending the time together brought me to tears. I wish, I wish that he hadn't died. 

▫️“𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒅, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈, 𝒊𝒇 𝑰 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒉𝒊𝒎, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒎.”

 ▫️" “𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒍𝒍,” 𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅, “𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒆, 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒂 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒅, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒏 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆. 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒍𝒍.” " 

🕯️𝐏𝐢𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐞 : This is one of the most wholesome relationships in the book. Joe stays with Pip from the very beginning and despite pip's change in attitude, Joe never treats him unkindly and eventually saves him.  

🕯️𝐏𝐢𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭: Pip finds a life long friend in him and is actually very selfless when it comes to Herbert, he does so much for him and Herbert makes sure Pip isn't alone.

▫️ “𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒕, 𝑰 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑰 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖; 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒎𝒚 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆.”

🕯️𝐏𝐢𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐦: Miss Havisham is quite similar to Magwitch in certain aspects and the relationship b/w Pip and her is a complicated one. Pip in his ignorance thinks it's Miss H who's his benefactor and therefore respects and loves her. But he doesn't cease to do so when he learns the truth. Despite her being the reason for Pip losing Estella, he doesn't hate her. And Miss H realises her mistake and becomes even more miserable .

▫️“𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒍, 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆, 𝑬𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂.” 

𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙨 :

▫️ “𝑯𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒚𝒔, 𝒏𝒐 𝒗𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒐𝒅; 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒗𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒑𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒏, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒊𝒕𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇” 

 ▫️ “𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒘𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒆 𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔, 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒖𝒑𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒉, 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔. ” 

 ▫️“𝑺𝒐 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒊𝒎,” 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒖𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅, “𝒔𝒐 𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆: 𝒔𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒊𝒎, 𝒔𝒐 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆; 𝒔𝒐 𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒖𝒔” 

▫️ “𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓! 𝑰𝒇 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓. 𝑰𝒇 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓. 𝑰𝒇 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒔—𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒅𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒓—𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓!” 

▫️ “𝑺𝒐, 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆, 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒖𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒎 𝒘𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒆.” 

▫️ “𝑰𝑻 𝑾𝑨𝑺 𝑶𝑵𝑬 𝑶𝑭 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉 𝒅𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒏 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒅: 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒆” 

✨🤍 “𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒃𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒎𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒎𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇; 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑮𝒐𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝑮𝒐𝒅”

“𝑭𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒍, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒆𝒕 𝒏𝒐 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒍𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒊𝒕; 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏.”

 “ 𝑻𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑰 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔.”

Words cannot describe how much i loved this book. Idk there were tears in my eyes by the end of the book, the way Kierkegaard talks about Abraham touched my heart. As a muslim, a believer of Abrahamic faith, i couldn't help but agree with Kierkegaard  and his admiration for Abraham and faith. 

▫️“It is human to complain, human to weep with one who weeps, but it
is greater to have faith and more blessed to behold the believer for it is great to give up one's desire, but greater to stick to it after
having given it up; it is great to grasp hold of the eternal but greater to stick
to the temporal after having given it up.”

▫️“The
dialectic of faith is the most refined and most remarkable of all dialectics, it
has an elevation that I can form a conception of but no more. For he who
loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves
God in faith reflects on God.”

A believer is indeed great. He stands firm on his faith, renounces his desires for his faith.

“𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒉𝒂𝒎 𝒃𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕, 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅. 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔?”

 Kierkegaard discusses the story of Abraham and his sacrifice through 3 parts:

1. 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐌𝐀 𝐈: 𝐈𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥?

Kierkegaard asks if a higher goal will justify suspending the ethical duties?
And then he argues that Abraham indeed suspends the ethical duties in order to fulfill his duties to god. Since he's ready to sacrifice Abraham's for his own sake(to fulfill god's command)and not for a higher ethical reason.

▫️"Faith is just this paradox, that the single individual as the particular is
higher than the universal, is justified before the latter, not as subordinate but
superior, though in such a way, be it noted, that it is the single individual
who, having been subordinate to the universal as the particular, now by
means of the universal becomes that individual who, as the particular,
stands in an absolute relation to the absolute. "

2. "𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐌𝐀 𝐈𝐈 : 𝐈𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐝𝐮𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐨𝐝? "

▫️"The ethical is the universal and as such, in turn, the divine. It is therefore
correct to say that all duty is ultimately duty to God; but if one cannot say
more one says in effect that really I have no duty to God. The duty becomes
duty to God by being referred to God, but I do not enter into relation with
God in the duty itself."

Kierkegaard argues that the ethical can be defined as universal and is associated with the divine and duty to God. Thus there are cases where one has to act against universal ethical principles to fulfill the duty to God. And then he talks about the Paradox of faith:

▫️"Then faith's paradox is this, that the single individual is higher than the
universal, that the single individual (to recall a theological distinction less in
vogue these days) determines his relation to the universal through his
relation to the absolute, not his relation to the absolute through his relation
to the universal"

Faith is the paradox which makes an individual become higher than the universal.Thus as the individual is higher than the universal and thus there is an absolute duty to God. Thus when an individual makes an absolute relationship with universal, it makes the ethics relative .

3. 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐌𝐀 𝐈𝐈𝐈 : 𝐖𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐡, 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐳𝐚𝐫, 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐈𝐬𝐚𝐚𝐜?

This was my fav part of the book. 

▫️"Abraham
makes two movements. He makes the infinite movement of resignation and
gives up his claim to Isaac, something no one can understand because it is a
private undertaking. But then he further makes, and at every moment is
making, the movement of faith.

Kierkegaard argues that Abraham doesn't need any approval from the universal, but instead from himself and God.  He argues that Abraham doesn't act like a tragic hero, who would seek advice from others, neither does would disclose himself like a true hero. Instead, he loses the sight of his  sufferings in his love for God and finds comfort in that faith.

▫️"But he who loves God has no
need of tears, needs no admiration, and forgets his suffering in love, indeed
forgets so completely that afterwards not the least hint of his pain would
remain were God himself not to remember it; for God sees in secret and
knows the distress and counts the tears and forgets nothing.
"

▫️"So either there is a paradox, that the single individual as the particular
stands in an absolute relation to the absolute, or Abraham is done for."

Thus Kierkegaard concludes the story with the paradox and leaves it up to the readers whether we accept it or not. 

𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴:

▫️“But the highest passion in a human being is faith”

▫️“No one who lacks an infinite passion is ideal and
anyone who does have an infinite passion has long since saved his soul” 

▫️“nullum unquam exstitit magnum ingenium sine aliqua
dementia’ [‘there was never great genius without some madness"For
the dementia here is the genius's suffering in life, is the expression, if I may
say so, of divine jealousy, while genius itself is the mark of divine favour...
Thus the genius is disorientated from the start in relation to the universal
and put into relation to the paradox, whether, in despair over his own
limitation, which in his own eyes turns his omnipotence into impotence, he
seeks a demonic reassurance and therefore will not admit the limitation to
either God or man, or he reassures himself religiously in love for the divine”

▫️“How is madness related to genius? Can the one be constructed out of the
other? In what sense and to what extent is the genius master of his own
madness? For it goes without saying that to some degree he is indeed its
master, otherwise he would really be mad”

▫️“Now tears, certainly, are a terrible argumentum ad hominem,92
and there are no doubt those whom nothing else touches but who can still be
stirred by tears”

▫️“ A proud and
noble nature can endure everything, but one thing it cannot endure, it cannot
endure pity. Pity implies an indignity that for such a person can only be
inflicted from above, for in himself he can never become an object of pity.”

▫️“But faith is
not the aesthetic, or if it is, then faith has never existed just because it has
existed always.”

▫️“Deeper natures never forget themselves and never become something other
than they were.”

🍂🕯️𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒏𝒐 𝒃𝒊𝒓𝒅; 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐 𝒏𝒆𝒕 𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒎𝒆: 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒂 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍.

This book will always have a special place in my heart. Reader, it was my first book, it was the book which made me fall in love with reading, i remember back in 2016, i found a copy of this in our school library and i was so intrigued by it, so i took it home and read it. I read it again in 2017 and 2018 and 2019. And in 2024 once again. So cheers to Jane Eyre 🫰🏻
Well reading it after so many years, i have a better understanding of the book. So many new thoughts and opinions which i would like to share here now. It's a passionate book with passionate characters, dealing with the idea of class, society, religion and gender norms. And we also have romance in it. Jane Eyre is the name of our main character, an orphan girl fighting the strings of fate to live a respectable life. Her life is taken by storm as she falls in love with Mr Rochester.

The dynamic between Jane and Mr Rochester is a toxic one with a lot of power imbalance, not only is Mr Rochester 20 years old but as well as her employer and is extremely rich and proud. Jane repeatedly throughout the novel addresses him as ‘my master’ and finds herself abiding by everything he says. But still she keeps her principles of self respect and passion for independence alive.

• “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you! ”

• “I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”

However they both love each other and it's quite evident they are passionate about each other:

♡ “𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒍𝒚 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆–𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖”

♡ “𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒎 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒉 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒚 𝒐𝒘𝒏: 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓.”

♡ “𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔, 𝒔𝒊𝒓: 𝒊𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖; 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏, 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓.”

♡ “ '𝑨𝒎 𝑰 𝒉𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐𝒖𝒔, 𝑱𝒂𝒏𝒆?'
 '𝑽𝒆𝒓𝒚, 𝒔𝒊𝒓: 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘.' ”

♡ “𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅: - 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒆𝒕, 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝑰 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌, 𝑰 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒎.”

♡ “𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒇𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 -- 𝑰 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒚 𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉 -- 𝒎𝒂𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒅, 𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇𝒊𝒔𝒉 -- 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒇𝒚. 𝑴𝒚 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍 𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖: 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒇𝒊𝒆𝒅, 𝒐𝒓 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒍𝒚 𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒎𝒆.”

♡ “𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓, 𝑰 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒎.”


🕯️𝙌𝙪𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙨:

▫️I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

▫️If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

▫️Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

▫️The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.

▫️It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it

▫️Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, to absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.

▫️There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

15 october, 2024.

Contains 4 short stories which are idk funny?

🪄📜 “Χαλεπά τά καλά. 𝑩𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒔𝒉.”

“𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒂 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒌 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒆. 𝑩𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒓. 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍, 𝒘𝒆 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒕. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒇𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍, 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒌𝒔 𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒍 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚? 𝑻𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒘 𝒐𝒇𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕, 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒔?”


Honestly this book deserves all the hype it gets. And Dona Tartt is an amazing writer, she has her way with the words, it's just like reading a classic from 18th/19th century. 


Some thoughts on the story and characters(may contain spoilers) :

It's an inverted murder mystery so we already know a lot of stuff and this in a way makes reading more exciting as the story unfolds. The book revolves around 6 young students who study Classics and language at the college of Vermont. Henry, Francis, Charles, Camilla, Bunny and Richard. And we also have an important character, their professor Julian Morrow.

“𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍 𝒊𝒇 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒃𝒔𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒗𝒆.”

📜Henry: Is he innocent and just a victim of the circumstances or is he just a psychopath manipulating everyone around him? 

“𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒚 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒅-𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒖𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓?'  
𝑯𝒆𝒏𝒓𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒕 𝒂 𝒄𝒊𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆. 
'𝑰 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒕,' 𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅, '𝒂𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓.' ”

Hmmmm.....

📜Francis: hides himself too much? deserves better tbh .

📜Charles: sweet in beginning and then idk what happened and he became a raging alcoholic and fucking ruined everything.

📜Camilla: sweet and cunning, or just helpless?

“𝑺𝒉𝒆, 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕, 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍, 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒏 𝒖𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒂𝒍𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒂𝒍 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒃𝒆 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒐𝒃𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒓.”

📜Bunny: stupid af 

📜Richard: our narrator. pick me( just kidding)  his parents never gave him any attention so yk🙂👍🏻 or he's just an unreliable narrator?

"𝑵𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒌, 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒏𝒐 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒐𝒖𝒕. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎, 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎, 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅."

📜Julian: coward (not my words, iykyk)

“Perhaps, I thought,
his reaction would be similar to my own. Perhaps he would see these
murders as a sad, wild thing, haunted and picturesque (I've done
everything,' old Tolstoy used to boast, 'I've even killed a man'), instead of
the basically selfish, evil act which it was.”

I also have a ton of questions regarding certain parts of the story but I'll be posting them on reddit ig. Well regarding the story it's supposed to feel like a greek tragedy, which it does tbh. It's like the group of students are misfits in the current world and belong to ancient Greek. 

𝑸𝒖𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔:

“I liked to read – Tom Swift, the Tolkien books – but also
to watch television, which I did plenty of, lying on the carpet of our empty
living room in the long dull afternoons after school”

“I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.”

“Why does that obstinate little voice in our heads torment us so?' he
said, looking round the table. 'Could it be because it reminds us that we are
alive, of our mortality, of our individual souls – which, after all, we are too
afraid to surrender but yet make us feel more miserable than any other
thing?”

“Love? Yes, but as old Cephalus once heard Sophocles say, the least of
we know that love is a cruel and terrible master. One loses oneself for the
sake of the other, but in doing so becomes enslaved and miserable to the
most capricious of all the gods.”

“Aristotle says in the Poetics,' said Henry, 'that objects such as corpses,
painful to view in themselves, can become delightful to contemplate in a
work of art.”

“Death is the mother of beauty,' said Henry.
'And what is beauty?'
'Terror,' 
'Well said,' said Julian. 'Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory.
Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.'
”

“Time is something which defies
spring and winter, birth and decay, the good and the bad, indifferently.
Something changeless and joyous and absolutely indestructible.”

“But if I've learned one thing in my short sad life, it is that that
particular platitude is a lie. Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever
thinks it does is a fool.”


“Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things –
naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror – are too terrible to really ever
grasp at all. It is only later, in solitude, in memory, that the realization
dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when
one looks around and finds oneself- quite to one's surprise – in an entirely
different world.”

“And besides, is death really so terrible a thing? It seems terrible to you,
because you are young, but who is to say he is not better off now than you
are? Or – if death is a journey to another place – that you will not see him
again?”

“Except that my life, for the most part, has been very stale and colorless. Dead, I mean. The world has always been an empty place to me. I was incapable of enjoying even the simplest things. I felt dead in everything I did.”


“There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty – unless she is wed to something more meaningful – is always superficial. It is not that your Julian chooses solely to concentrate on certain, exalted things; it is that he chooses to ignore others equally as important.”

“The dead appear to us in dreams, said Julian, because that's the only waythey can make us see them; what we see is only a projection, beamed froma great distance, light shining at us from a dead star…
”

“𝑺𝒆𝒙 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏’𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆.”

tw : adult/minor relationship.

Honestly Marquez writes so beautifully and profoundly. He has his way with the words. It's simply impressive.
Now this is again one of those books which makes one uncomfortable. It's written from the perspective of a 90 year old man who apparently falls in love with a 14 year old.  There are a lot of things to unpack here obviously, a lot of people might assume that Marquez is writing to romanticize pedophila and will judge the author based on this story. But that's simply not correct. 1st of its completely okay for authors to write about bad people and bad things. And in this case Marquez is simply trying to show us the dark side of his time. Historically child prostitution had been common in that part of the world and Marquez had experienced all this ugly stuff and he's simply trying to write about it. He's not romanticizing or glorifying any of it. 

𝘘𝘶𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴:

“𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅.” 

 “𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆, 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒕𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒅, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒈𝒊𝒂”

“𝑰 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅, 𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒕, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒕 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒂 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒛𝒐𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒄”

“𝑰 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒂𝒏. 𝑰 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎. 𝑰 𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝑰 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒊𝒔 𝒖𝒏𝒓𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅, 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚, 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆”

“𝑨𝒉, 𝒎𝒆, 𝒊𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔.”

“𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏.”

 “𝑰𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔, 𝒂𝒕 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕, 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆, 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒔𝒂𝒇𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒊𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒋𝒐𝒚𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒂𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒕𝒉 𝒃𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒅𝒂𝒚.”

As he said : “𝘑𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘧, 𝘯𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘣𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘧 ”  

 “𝘕𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴. 𝘈 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺”

Yeah exactly everyone's belief system whether they believe in religion or not is actually same.  It's not gonna change because someone thinks otherwise not unless the person himself wants to change.

As for saying religion is an illusion and it's been a tool used by man to comfort himself, I don't see why that's even an issue. 
His arguments were pretty weak. I don't know about the whole psychoanalysis thing but will definitely read it but as far as philosophy and religion is concerned, he's himself confused about things. He talks how religion preaches about morality but then people keep doing immoral things and then he blames religion for it. How's religion responsible for that? The problem lies in the people and not the religion(that's my opinion).

💍🗡️“𝑻𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝑹𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒏-𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒌𝒚, 𝑺𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒇-𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆, 𝑵𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝑴𝒆𝒏 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒊𝒆, 𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝑳𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝑰𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒆. 𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝑹𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒖𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒂𝒍𝒍, 𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝑹𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎, 𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝑹𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒃𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝑰𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒆.”

This is exactly what i was looking for🤌🏻 SAURON!

THERE'S A LOT OF SAURON IN THIS BOOK. The fall of Numenor chapters alternate with chapters narrating the rise of Sauron.

Some Quotes 

"Of old there was Sauron the Maia, whom the Sindar in Beleriand named Gorthaur. In
the beginning of Arda Melkor seduced him to his allegiance, and he became the greatest
and most trusted of the servants of the Enemy, and the most perilous, for he could
assume many forms, and for long if he willed he could still appear noble and beautiful,
so as to deceive all but the most wary.
"

"Sauron had never reached this stage of nihilistic madness. He did not object to the
existence of the world, so long as he could do what he liked with it. He still had the
relics of positive purposes that descended from the good of the nature in which he
began: it had been his virtue (and therefore also the cause of his fall, and of his relapse)
that he loved order and coordination, and disliked all confusion and wasteful friction…"

"Now the Elves made many rings; but secretly Sauron made One Ring to rule all the
others, and their power was bound up with it, to be subject wholly to it and to last only
so long as it too should last. And much of the strength and will of Sauron passed into
that One Ring; for the power of the Elven-rings was very great, and that which should
govern them must be a thing of surpassing potency; and Sauron forged it in the
Mountain of Fire in the Land of Shadow. And while he wore the One Ring he could
perceive all the things that were done by means of the lesser rings, and he could see and
govern the very thoughts of those that wore them"

"This is a hard doom,’ said Sauron, ‘but great kings must have their will’, and he
submitted as one under compulsion, concealing his delight; for things had fallen out
according to his design"

"Now Sauron had great wisdom and knowledge, and could find words of seeming
reason for the persuasion of all but the most wary; and he could still assume a fair
countenance when he wished"