Re-attaching Me

The erasure of the black woman is so well exemplified by the story that we don't even see that Victoire is possibly the coolest, most profound and interesting character of the whole damn book up until the ending.

"Be selfish, be brave."

one point that’s really weighing on my mind is letty’s decision to betray her friends on the pretext that she was preventing a violent uprising and saving the lives of the english people. it baffles me that she could never quite see or understand the racism and prejudice that she purported with both her ignorance and assumptions.

anthony had beat griffin. his choice to peacefully influence parliament through lobbying and influencing public opinion had been accepted by the hermes society as their plan of action. they had not entertained violence as an actual option. griffin pushed for it, but he was so outnumbered that his opinion didn’t hold nearly enough weight. all thoughts and ideas of violence came to them in the middle of the night amidst delirious ramblings and frustrated expressions. none of it was intended to become reality. everybody knew this, except letty. she couldn’t comprehend the idea that a group of foreigners could speak with such ferocity and not act upon it. she assumed that they’d take that path eventually, and in doing so, catalysed the strike and subsequent civil war.