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4/5 stars — belly whenever there’s emotional turmoil or interpersonal conflict: 🏊♀️🏃♀️💨for me this was not as strong as book one- the timeline felt harder to follow (flashbacks were less clearly defined, plus now we’ve introduced Jeremiah’s POV), a ...more "
4 It seems obvious to say, and yet worth saying, that most of these moments of violence are due to the colonialist’s instinct to transport, cage, and own what is fundamentally unownable: a wild animal, or even nature itself.
“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely happy. To be near him, to hear him talk as he did talk, and to feel that he thought me worthy to be so spoken to - capable of understanding and duly appreciating such discourse - was enough.”
― Agnes Grey
― Agnes Grey
“But our wishes are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sparks, which vanish immediately, unless they chance to fall upon the tinder of our wishes; then, they instantly ignite, and the flame of hope is kindled in a moment.”
― Agnes Grey
― Agnes Grey
“This is the trouble with history. You can't see what's not there. You can look at an empty space and see that something's missing, but there's no way to know what it was.”
― The Power
― The Power
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