unfit, but unfazed

everything is actually ghosts, except ghosts, which are a story we tell to avoid acknowledging just how profoundly haunted everything is

If you enjoyed this book you should read every other book in the world for extra textual context. All things are intricately related to one another.

The girl cannot leave the house because she has nowhere else to go.

(girl who's been thinking about The Character nonstop for two months voice) you'll never guess what this song reminds me of

a House with a ghost in it that is """"haunting"""" the place (eg. knocking shit over, walking around, weeping and wailing, etc.) will never be as interesting as a House that is angry, lonely, in Love, etc. and does everything in its power to tell the inhabitants about it. a dead white person writing on the walls will never be as interesting as the house itself expelling liquid or chalk - things it has learned are "people tools" - from its internals to force the people violating it to take notice of it.

recurring dead wife flashback where it becomes increasingly apparent that the person remembering her has dishonestly claimed a romantic dynamic to their relationship that never actually existed and erased any conflict that ever existed between them now that she's no longer able to say no to them

when someone calls me their friend my heart skips a beat it’s like i won at being myself