#the great believers

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And was friendship that different in the end from love? You took the possibility of sex out of it, and it was all about the moment anyway. Being here, right now, in someone’s life. Making room for someone in yours.

Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

[mylifeincharingcrossroad]

[litsnaps]

[asoftepiloguemylove]

Hi, can you do a web weave on the loss of a lover who you grieve for everyday for your life and wishes to seek their love everyday?

Thank you so much and I love you blog!!

i hope you're doing okay <33

L. Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz / Ocean Vuong in an interview by Tonya Mosley / Martha Gellhorn from a letter to Hortense Flexner and Wyncie King Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn / pinterest / Rebecca Makkai The Great Believers / Anne Carson Glass, Irony and God / One Day (2011) dir. Lone Scherfig / pinterest

[shelvingcart]

what i'm reading rn - sarah

[sassyalone]

Lake Michigan, impossibly blue, the morning light bouncing toward the city. Lake Michigan frozen in sheets you could walk on but wouldn't dare. Lake Michigan, gray out a high-rise window, indistinguishable from the sky. Bread, hot from the oven. Or even stale in the restaurant basket, rescued by salty butter. The Cubs winning the pennant someday. The Cubs winning the Series. The Cubs continuing to lose. His favorite song, not yet written. His favorite movie, not yet made. The depth of an oil brushstroke. Chagall's blue windows. Picasso's blue man and his guitar. Dr. Cheng said, "I'm going to write down everything I say to you, so you can read it again later."

— The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai

[theunstuffedpepper]

It’s October! Best month of the year. Had to get out to the local orchard today for some apple picking and fresh cider donuts. It’s been raining for like a week straight but today starts a string of perfectly sunny 70-something-degree days and I am heeeeere for it.

Has anyone else read The Great Believers? I was into it for a bit, but I’m having trouble getting myself to care about the 2015 timeline with the lost daughter and the cult and all of it. 15 more hours of listening feels like a lot to dedicate to it, but I hate not finishing a book.

[sonatine]

"As it was, the hand-holding was an end in itself... And was friendship that different in the end from love? You took the possibility of sex out of it, and it was all about the moment anyway. Being here, right now, in someone's life. Making room for someone in yours."

Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

[sopherzzzz]

can't bring myself to finish the last 30 pages of my books because i don't want to watch the main character die :(

[itskikoa]

february 11, 2023

finished reading the great believers by rebecca makkai today, my favourite read in a while

[blaithnne]

Live Mel reaction

[quotespile]

How beautiful, the doomed love! How gorgeous and ambient, the ways we abandon each other! The lovely wars we die in, the poetry of disease!

Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

[mylifeincharingcrossroad]

[litsnaps]

[asoftepiloguemylove]

hi! Love, love, love your web weaves sm!

Can you do one on trying to convince yourself that your ex is a douchebag, but you can't? If you're still taking requests ofc!

Stay safe <3

hi !! i interpreted this as like longing but also failing to let go. i hope that's close to what you meant lol. i hope you're doing well <33

and everything i did i thought "you should be here"

Car Seat Headrest I Want You to Know That I'm Awake/I Hope That You're Asleep / pinterest / @/dustyfan (tiktok) / pinterest / Vita Sackville-West / Bon Iver A song for a lover of long time ago / pinterest / Rebecca Makkai The Great Believers

[isjasz]

[mob killing noises] BAM!!!!1111!!