When Your Card Declines At Therapy So They Remind You How Jude Knows For Certain How True The Axiom Of

Both Luke, Harold, and Dr Traylor would make Jude drink milk with his dinner

Milk as a symbolism of childhood, protection, nurturing care. Milk used to regain physical strength when it was lost, because the three of them each needed jude for something (a tool, a son, a toy) and he needed that strength to take on what they wanted from him.

the parallels in this book make me insane but yk when Harold was talking w Liesl for the first time in sixteen years and discovered she had been doing the same thing he had, which was seeing Jacob’s essence in the faces of students or just passerbys in the street.

“Only to realize later that she had imagined they might be our son, alive and well and away from us, no longer ours, but walking freely through the world, unaware that we might have been searching for him all this time”

And then later on, after Jude’s death, Harold finds that in everything he sees, he sees him. He seeks his son’s face once again, finding comfort in the idea that he might be somewhere off in the world, walking free, without pain and without grief, but he is no longer his and Julia’s.

Was that the price that Harold and Julia paid to let Jude be freed? That he might be off somewhere else, no longer really Jude but something or someone else that does not carry the pain or grief that Jude carried with him? But in return, he would no longer be Harold and Julia’s? They would never be able to reach him again, but he is free now.

“And if a child can no longer be comforted, is it my job to give him permission to leave?”

“Or he would sleep in the bathtub or in the closet, beetled up as tight as he was able.”

“My poor potato bug.”

Stills from my previous post

bonus per my dear friends request: Jude w/out that fucker behind him

Friendly reminder that this is how Andy and Jude greet each other every time 💜

the kinda shit the brothers would tell jude:

IM IN PARIS RN IVE BEEN DOING TBIS

everyday my poor friend is harassed by my inability to be normal after reading A Little Life

In Een Klein Leven, the “You’re Jude St. Francis” monologue is done in a way that each character says lines from it, not just Willem. Which I think is such a beautiful way of expressing that specific monologue.

On the other hand, Ivo Van Hove did not have to go shattering my heart by having Andy say the “You’re the bravest person I know” part.

Because Andy knows the full extent of the damage done to Jude’s body, he would be the one to really know and understand how much physical pain Jude is in every day. He understands what his episodes actually entail, what is happening to his body when they occur.

And he watches him still live his life, still get up every morning to go to work and spend time with his family and friends. Of course in Andy’s eyes, who could be braver than Jude?

it’s like have you ever heard of real life before. so many people kill themselves, and the fact that the book isn’t wrapped up in a neat little bow of beginning, conflict and resolution like most books does not mean jude is bad representation. it demonstrates an anti brain function ideology that actually makes me go crazy… say you didn’t like it because you want everyone to be happy ever after! guess what! suicide doesn’t make sense, and thousands of people never get a happy ever after.

people in the a little life tag being like "jude st francis is bad representation because there is no moral resolution for his trauma" i am BEGGING you to shut the fuck up

“how does the israel & palestine effect me?” does something need to affect you personally for you to show some empathy, to care? do you not care that we are witnessing A GENOCIDE. an ethical cleansing of palestinians & countries such as the US, the UK arent helping and actually funding to support this genocide.

you dont care about genocide but you guys expect me to care about…your sps? you guys expect me stop talking about palestine and write back to you guys about the void a topic thats been done 27282919 times or wanting your crush messaging you back? atp just stfu

i was looking for a specific part of a little life and i was flipping through my copy and suddenly just read “Limes” and i fucking jumped and had to walk away