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“…once a girl walked into a library she could never be controlled again.”

“Words were magic. That was all he knew. Words were all they had. And if that was true, then anything was possible.”

“Real life is unbelievable. Souls are snatched away from us, flesh and blood turn to dust, people you love betray you, men go to war over nothing. It’s all preposterous. That’s why we have novels. To make sense of things.”

“In a place where books were banned there could be no personal freedom, no hope, and no dreams for the future…Turn someone into a reader and you turn the world around.”

“They thought I only had a life that I lived here, but I had found other possibilities every time I read a book.”

Super excited for this full cast audio!

I wish these books were shorter so I could feel a little more accomplishment. Lol. But that’s ok.

Ok I’m in to this now

This is a struggle.

I have no idea what’s happening. Lol. This is a book I need to read with my eyes instead of my ears, I think.

I’ve lost count of how many chapters there are in this book that end with someone taking off and running. Where are we going?!

“Now, worlds, characters, even sentences linger— burning, like beacons in her brain. Reminding her that she’s not alone.”

I DEEPLY distrust Jasper. Also, this is like the 3rd book in a row that I’ve read with a character named Jasper…

“It wasn’t the end that mattered, but every word leading up to it.”

Someone is WAXING again. I know this author has other ways to say that people are talking…

The author has used the phrase “waxed poetic” 3x so far in this book and referred to someone’s talking as just “waxing” once. I can’t NOT notice these things!!

“Sometimes a book can change your life. It’s hard to explain that to someone who doesn’t read, or who has never felt their heart bend so strongly toward a story that it might just snap in two. Some books are a comfort, some a reprieve, others a vacation, a lesson, a heartbreak.”

“… Love stories were enough. They were safe. They would never fail me.”

Bella is literally the worst. 😂

I need a prequel book so badly. The movies miss SO MUCH of the Cullens’ back stories from the book. It makes each of them so much more interesting.

It’s vampire baseball time!

It’s a whole lot of descriptions of Edward’s beauty, “I was following you”, and “I’m your brand of heroin?”…. 🤣

It’s not the next great American novel, but it’s definitely nostalgic!

I’ve started this a few times over the years but was never feeling up to facing all the praise this book has gotten. It’s daunting! But it’s time. Let’s do this.