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Things get complicated when the child becomes the parent.

{I'm 55% of my way through the book, but I can't see the exact page number}

"We stand or fall by truth; if truth will not support us, nothing can."

"Don't ever apologize to me. It should be me who apologizes to you."

"They were only humans, playing in the snow, in a house."

"...her best friend"

"I need a win, Liesel. Honestly."

"For a moment, he looked a little hurt, but as always...he gave the right thing to say his best shot."

"...its physicality was like friction---like a stone being gently rubbed across a large rock. It was deep in places and scratched apart in others, sometimes breaking off altogether. It was deepest in regret, and broken off at the end of a joke or a statement of self-deprecation."

"Yet each day, he managed to unravel and straighten himself. disgusted and thankful. Wrecked, but somehow not torn into pieces."

"The crowd was itself. There was no swaying it, squeezing through, or reasoning with it. You breathed with it and you sang with its songs."

"But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear?"

"a stranger to kill the aloneness"

the narrator...

There are some REALLY great quotes!

I LOVE the last line! The context, the imagery, the emotion; everything culminates to this ending moment! All is finished. Everything is tied. The precious are saved.

We don't like Sydney Carton!

Almost halfway!

This is really picking up the pace and I feel like it's going to turn out to be a fun MG read that I'll remember for a long time! (which is great because I'm SUPER busy)