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“Then I got my hands on Althea’s book. And it was perfect. There are no lessons in it. There’s just this harsh, horrible world touched with beautiful magic, where shitty things happen. And they don’t happen for a reason, or in threes, or in a way that looks like justice. They’re set in a place that has no rules and doesn’t want any. And the author’s voice—your grandmother’s voice—is perfectly pitiless. She’s like a war reporter who doesn’t give a fuck.”
― The Hazel Wood
― The Hazel Wood
“He had the gift of magnifying joy and minimizing grief in a simple hug.”
― Across the Winding River
― Across the Winding River
“Most people can see the writing on the wall, even if they can’t always read what it says.”
― Rock Paper Scissors
― Rock Paper Scissors
“She saw this in the US after every school shooting: a flurry of news stories, the sanctimonious tweets about thoughts and prayers, the predictable calls for gun control reform and then—silence. Parents and other survivors were left to their private lifelong grief, permanently out of step with a world that had moved on. Bloodstains were scrubbed from school walls before the students returned.”
― Honor
― Honor
“We think our memories are pure and uncorrupted, but this is a delusion. Every time we access a memory we rebuild it. Every time it’s rebuilt, things are added and things are lost. In fact, the more we remember something, the less resemblance that memory bears to the original event. We know that memory is fallible—or we know it, but we don’t really believe it. If someone says we remembered something wrong, we argue over it! We fight for the honor of our memories. Maybe it’s like religion, or love. The more flimsy something is, the more fiercely we believe in it.”
― Tell Me an Ending
― Tell Me an Ending
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