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I should've known that with a name like Yoder, that there might be a connection to Mennonite heritage referenced in the story.

Sure enough, I just learned that the protagonist (Nightbitch) grew up Mennonite. I like it even more now.

So far, this is doing what Yesteryear attempted to do. Tackling MLMs too. Woof.

“I was starting to understand what she needed might have been color rather than conversation, breath rather than words.”

"The books had given me that bravery, which is another way of saying the ability to believe."

-Ann Patchett on Reading Kate DiCamillo

my thoughts exactly.

"Oh! I forget, you don't borrow books, you maim them."

My biggest peeve with Emma is this point exactly. She refuses to read any book she doesn't own because she wants to mark them up with her thoughts. But her library is pitifully small and hardly growing. Start a book journal?? Make notes elsewhere as you read? Imagine missing out on all the lovely books in the world just because you couldn't afford to own them.

I find it shocking to realize how simple it would be to see myself as a worthless servant, to find joy in the service of others, to open my heart and let it remain open to everyone, *everyone,* all the time.

The trick is in the decision to wake up every morning and meet the world again with love.

I have to think the fire and stake would be easier than this tireless, unconditional love.

She threw the ring!? I’m gobsmacked.
SHE THREW THE RING!?

INTO THE WATER!?

nah…that’s too cold. minus one star just for that nonsense drama.

The funeral for the sweet pea ---hilarious!

“…and what is time, but cumulative loss?”

well said for a book that seems to stretch into eternity. I’m 18 hours into the audio book with only 13.5 to go.🙂‍↕️

I know everyone finds humor in different things, but this isn't for me.

When the "chaos" and conflict is totally avoidable by simply saying "no thank you" I end up annoyed instead of amused.
If the MC just grew a spine, she could avoid about 90% of the suffering she is enduring.

Do not do a thing you cannot undo, until you have considered well what you cannot do once you've done it.

My go-to karaoke song (I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor) has been sung in the meet cute.
Sold.

Ugh...covid 19 casually makes an entrance.
Why.

"How wonderful a thing to find one's friends."

MC is single-handedly providing gossip for an office full of weirdly close co-workers.

Now THIS is dystopian. Excellent so far.

The ability to discern and question, which is crucial to both journalism and democracy is also determined by education.

Journalists and news organizations are a reflection of the people’s power to hold its leaders accountable.

That means that ultimately, the quality of a democracy can also be seen in the quality of its journalists.

Because what good is news without girlfriends?

"Never is over."

Well that didn't take long...why did I think I would get through this book without crying?

But where did it come from, this wanting disease? From how I got born, or the ones that made me, or the crowd I ran with later?

Everybody warns about bad influences, but it’s these things already inside you that are going to take you down. The hopeless wishes that won’t quit stalking you.

Some perfect words you think you could say to somebody to make them see you, and love you and stay.

"When the bee to the earth does fall, the butterfly comes back to change it all."

Weeping.

"When the bee to the earth does fall, the butterfly comes back to change it all."

Weeping.

"When the bee to the earth does fall, the butterfly comes back to change it all."

Weeping.

Wow, King James (yes, that one) reeeeally hated women.

Already crying.