#readingdiscourse

[notesfromchaos]

gothic literature looked at a monster and said "that is a monster."

modern dark romance sometimes looks at a monster and says "okay but he's protective."

and i think that's a far more interesting conversation.

[notesfromchaos]

“Sometimes it hurts, it really hurts, for no other reason than the fact that our skin doesn’t feel like it’s ours. Sometimes we panic, because the bills need paying and we have to be grown-up and we don’t know how, because it’s so horribly, desperately easy to fail at being grown-up.” - Fredrik Backman, Anxious People