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“Richard’s mother also recommended [the baker], so I know she’s fantastic.”
“Dick’s mother?” Harlow smirks, and I swat at her. “What? Come on. Who knowingly names their child Richard? Or Peter? Or Johnson?”
“Your knowledge of phallic names is impressive.”

This dialogue has stopped me in my tracks. I’m somehow torn between being a) speechless and b) about to do a PowerPoint about it.

“…his forearms have veins, for god’s sake”

So do mine???????

MMM a whole book about people wilfully not communicating with each other MY FAVOURITE

“Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I’d throw them over my shoulder. It was only the children I carried in my arms.”

“I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sandcastles, houses of cards, that’s where they begin. Their great skill is their capacity to escalate.”

I am afraid and also in love

“I don’t know but I… I want to show you every good thing I’ve ever found.” 😭😭😭

“…the world had decided that to be soft was to be weak, even though in Joan’s experience being soft and flexible was always more durable than being hard and brittle.”

Obsessed

“Art is coincidence.”

Benji Ovich 2.0 alert (uh oh)

Finally rewatching The Wire, and this is a perfect accompaniment as it fleshes out the whole world while providing essays episode by episode. Dense af though - which I suppose is fitting.

Help I’m dying

“And that’s why the world has Holy Grails - not because the world needs Holy Grails but because the world needs heroes.”

😱😱😱

Yikes

“And Breeze knew that what you haven’t reckoned with, you’re doomed to repeat. America was a ghost story with no end.” 😐

I’m agog

This….does not feel like a Rainbow Rowell book.

😱😱😱 !!!!!!!!