They knew they were almost certainly going to die trying to get to the city, and it sounds like they don't even know for sure what awaits them there? Things must be real bad wherever they're coming from.

so....idk what to do. I tried reading today but got overwhelmed by the noise, I'm also so tired and full of stuff with college I am simply too tired. Funny enough the only book I find myself enjoying if Frankenstein lol sorry to the ARCS waiting for me

She made the sentient plant because she was lonely and then her punishment was eternal loneliness nooo 😭

I could have lived the rest of my life without knowing that my thoughts and perhaps even what I’m hungry for is influenced by microbes living inside me. Thanks, John!

My mind is actually having a hard time wrapping around the fact that people just went about their lives and then BAM one day they find out that GERMS EXIST AND THEY'RE LITERALLY EVERYWHERE. How many people said 'yeah right, fake news'? Because if something similar were revealed to us today people would absolutely lose their shit and fight over the authenticity of the evidence. And I'm sure it will happen again one day with some quantum physics entanglement theory multiverse sort of thing and current times will seem like the dark ages! Okay I'm spiraling a little thinking about this, probably time to take a break.

"You know what men don't do enough of?" "They don't shut the fuck up." Gabriel gets it frfr.

Small, waifish bodies being a symbol of beauty and value is confusingly opposite of our evolutionary biology. Especially centuries ago when so many children died young. "The beauty of women is greatly owing to their delicacy or weakness." As animals we want to propagate the species by reproducing, and none of the "beautiful, consumptive" qualities being described are indicators of a being able to conceive and bear a child. How did it become so romanticized? And the idea of weakness equaling beauty is some deep rooted misogyny if I ever heard it. Damn, there's a lot to unpack in this chapter.