I'm only 40 pages in and already in awe...

[carmiebob]

"The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfilment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real

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[annamal_11]

Oh my God. I'm about to finish it. It is so, so good.

I kept writing down quotes about life and love from the book.