Saw a meme that says if Jude went to therapy everything will be fine. I know it's a meme but i think one of the points of this book is the fact that some people, no matter how hard they try (it's one of the most constant thing too that i've noticed through out the book: that jude is always trying) can never be fixed, not by love or patience or friendship or support or therapy. There are certain characters that are inevitably doomed by the narrative. That there are people who will never get better. People who died with the idea that their existence is something to apologize for, despite people who love them telling them otherwise. Sometimes love isn't enough, there is so much proof of that in this world, but many of us turn away from that fact, because in movies, in books, love was almost always enough.
“What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.” So it tried to show the grotesque side, something that pushes you to turn away, because you want the love to be enough, because you want him to get better but he doesn't. And that's why stories like these need to be told, that despite the love that was evidently there, it couldn't stop the inevitable, it didn't change their doomed faith, but it was there, it was there.
There are pretty stories and then there are the wretched ones, none of which are more worth telling than the other. Every story deserves a listener, even if it's hard to hear, especially if it's hard to hear.
“I weep because you cannot save people. You can only love them.”
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