These Violent Delights
Impressions
- Mariashared an impression14 days ago
👍Worth reading🔮Hidden Depths💡Learnt A Lot🎯Worthwhile💞Loved Up🚀Unputdownable"All they were- all they had ever been- was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun"
There's nothing more I love than a book which sculpts its characters intricately, with each scene and description meaning something. There's symbolism and parallels all over, which I'm a sucker for. Paul and Julian's love gave me both the high and disgust- it's raw, bittersweet and tragic in a way that makes my heart ache.
I also loved the unpredictable nature of it, how whenever I thought something greater (and more disturbing for that matter) would've happened it completely steered in the other direction, and vice versa- how that one event of simply walking through the forest suddenly became so violent.
And also... My poor baby Julian, oh god. Move Paul, it's MY turn - Theodore Maurice August "Vanderboom" Scarletshared an impression2 years ago👍Worth reading🔮Hidden Depths🎯Worthwhile💞Loved Up🚀Unputdownable😄LOLZ🐼Fluffy💧Soppy
Quotes
- ♡emma♡has quoted3 years ago
You don’t need me, you never did, you just get off on knowing you could kill me and I’d thank you for it, it’s a story you can tell yourself whenever you want to feel special - ♡emma♡has quoted3 years agoHe felt gentle and endlessly patient; if Julian had asked, he would have happily cut his chest open and handed over his heart, his lungs, every part of himself piece by piece
- ♡emma♡has quoted3 years agoWhat a lonely, dreary thing it is to know the truth. What a relief it is that now neither of us has to be alone in knowing
