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I hope I’m not speaking too soon, but this may be the best YA I’ve ever read…… maybe best book this year for me…. We’ll see.

" Maybe
compared to what you did, Olka, it’s not that much. But you know
what, my love? It’s not nothing."

" Maybe they wouldn’t judge him by the worst things
he’d done but by the better things he was trying to do."

"It was the also that did it. Made him realize that in some
horrible way, he was not special. "

“It’s
as if you’ve invited out my better self and, in doing so, invited me to
rise to the occasion, rather than sink to it."

“I’m not very good at apologies.”
Very few people are. Most of them prefer to say sorry for having
offended someone rather than being sorry for the offense itself.

"That’s the thing about hate. It can sometimes feel like a blanket
against the cold, a salve against a wound. When you don’t have
love, it can feel like a decent substitute."