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CORRINE CRADLING CATHY’S FEVERED HEAD ON HER LAP WHILE THEY’RE TRAPPED AND STARVING AND CATHY’S CALLING OUT MOMMA ASKING HER WHY SHE DOESN’T COME TO SEE THEM IN THE ATTIC AND CORRINE BEGGING FOR HER FORGIVENESSSSSSS.

#mystuff #if there be thorns #flowers in the attic #the dollanganger series #this book is so crazy cathartic #bc it tackles the issue of cycles of violence and attempting to heal in such a raw way #ALL OF IT SO CATHY CAN FINALLY ACCEPT CORRINE'S FORGIVENESS #its SO GOOD #ITS SO LAYERED #ITS SO MESSY #ITS SO DAMN CATHARTIC THAT I ALMOST CRIED AT WORK #if corrine was truly like bart then she was someone who didn't know how to be herself so she became whoever made her strong #AND FOR BOTH OF THEM THAT PERSON WAS MALCOLM ugggh #i get that this book is hard to get through bc bart is such a difficult character #but i had so much sympathy for him bc he is just too sensitive and too imaginative and possibly on the spectrum? idk #i totally see how john amos could claw his way into his psyche and turn him on to his worst impulses #BUT ITS CHRIS AND CATHY'S EMPATHY AND COMPASSION THAT WON OUT #bart is keeping them locked in as his little mice ( GOD THIS WHOLE SEQUENCE IS A LOT)#but always he's thinking how this is all wrong and he does love them #if there be thorns is insane #u read flowers and petals JUST to get to the family dynamics in thorns i think

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