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Every newscast about it ends with a general public warning that "gas line maintenance is essential!"

I try to remember this as a mother that comfort is more important than being right when your baby is hurting.

"It means perfection," he says. "It means, I like you the way you are, Sam"

With her perfect memory, I'm surprised that she doesn't immediately remember that when she learns the sign for gold.

I'm impressed with the notes before each chapter. Did the author make them all up?

They are surface best friends - not showing personal vulnerabilities.

Is it possible to be best friends if you share nothing personal about their lives?

Talking about the fire cycle is an interesting choice.

I've always envied people who can think outside the box like this. I'm like Ari, giving the answer the teacher is looking for.

The butterfly effect

I like the focus on the soul, this intangible thing and on perfection.

The energy of a soul is a uniquely powerful, fragile and transient thing, imperfect in a way that in organics are not. And once a soul is gone, it can never be restored, rendering the transmutation equation permanently unequal...Imperfection can always move toward perfection; but perfection, like the divine state of moksha, is eternal.

Everything can be more beautiful. And because it has the potential to be more beautiful later, everything suddenly feels less beautiful now.

Fight club rules

Was destroying the rabbit the catalyst for how her view of the world changed? She stopped looking at it with wonder and beauty.

I think the night and the morning are the same, equals and opposites. One becomes the other becomes the one.

When does the night end and the morning begin?

There was no one he could talk to who might understand the singular feeling of trying to regrow torn roots in unfamiliar earth.

It's interesting that Sam's entrance is an intro to alchemy and ari's entrance is an intro to Sam.

Alchemy is the science of changing something into something more desirable...Sam struggles to understand the concept, because she has never imagined more for her life, has never thought to want anything different.

When do we start wishing for a better more desirable life?

When Sam is older, she will understand that her mother didn't mean to hurt her on this day, but it doesn't really matter, because she did it anyway.

It is the gnawing fear that, without alchemy, she's nothing.

Aren't we all afraid of that? She picked characters with reflect most everyone I think. And did a good job showing all sides of one coin.

Changing something into something more desirable. But has sand made the world a better place? Or just a different one?

What book is "know your worth" from?

I like the circle back to the dandelions

Is monstrosity what it takes to progress civilization? Why else was mankind given this capacity for unspeakable cruelty?

What?! WILL?! I had written him off

Great splitting of the love letter excerpt

It wasn't free because something cannot come from nothing. Everything has an equal and opposite cost. The equation must always be balanced. Greatness, in exchange for a soul.

I changed my mind. I like that she is out of her depth. She needs to be forged in a fire, nothing truly terrible has happened to her until now. I can't wait for the next book.

I'm unused to reading a book about an escape plan that isn't planned by a mastermind and goes immediately wrong. Sam and Ari are not perfect or the best at everything. Very different from aelin and kaz

I don't that I like this jump to Sam quicky figuring everything out and having a plan
It's very convenient

When does the night end and the morning begin?

And with that I really need to stop reading and go to bed...

I love the relationship triangle trope for these characters.