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“Quos vult perdere Jupiter dementat prius.”

The corruption becomes incredibly apparent :( It makes me sad to see how the Catholic Church was acting

Ahh

Fritz dude yes

Fritz dude…no

“He looked worse than sad — it was like he’d simply accepted what the state was doing to his life. He’d given up.”

LET’S GO SIBLINGS LET’S GO

“He looked worse than sad — it was like he’d simply accepted what the state was doing to his life. He’d given up.”

LET’S GO SIBLINGS LET’S GO

“He wanted me to tunnel into the west. To freedom. To him.”

NO NO GERTA WAIT GERTA-

“‘You’ve seen the sun, Anna. Now that you have, could you ever be content with just the stars for light? Would that be enough for you?’”

Anna and Gerta my tragic girls

“If she suddenly pulled a mask from her face revealing a Stasi officer in disguise, I wouldn’t have been any more surprised than I already was.”

This middle grade book should
not be making me feel so much

“Viktor and I used to be friends. He was a good guy…once.”

Why does this middle grade book make me want to sob

“That file means I have no chance in life, none. They’ve already determined that I will fail.”

The Stasi was doing all that?! I knew they were bad but holy moly

“He was digging.
Papa wanted me to dig.”

It is still chilling to me to think about how many people tried to cross the wall in just that way and were killed.

I’m sure the book will have a happy ending and the family will be reunited, but I worry what obstacles they’ll face trying to do this.

“Courage isn’t knowing you can do something; it’s only being willing to try…”

I’m excited for Peter but also worried about his family.

“Old sins have long shadows.”

The book is heavily implying that the teacher murder is for sure what Joyce saw. I hope that this doesn’t turn out to be a trick 😭😭 Nora though…I wonder what happened to Nora.

‘Amongst those present was—
A Murderer.’ “

I loved reading Ferguson’s paragraphs in a really fast Scottish accent in my head.

Why am I sus of him now though?

“When you’re in with a nasty crowd you’ve got it coming to you with a knife if you let them down.”

I don’t really know what to do or how to feel about this new information. The last murder seems to be the most likely one Joyce would have witnessed, but I wonder if it was a different situation entirely

“Yes, yes, I play the part of the computer. One feeds in the information—“
“And supposing you come up with all the wrong answers?” said Mrs. Oliver.
“That would be impossible,” said Hercule Poirot. “Computers do not do that sort of a thing.”

Gray cells operating like clockwork out here

“‘I have just remembered,’ said Hercule Poirot, ‘why the name of Woodleigh Common was familiar to me.’”

WOAH. Omg. WOAH. That makes a lot of sense for a motive.

“Mrs. Goodbody, a local clwaning woman who…was admirably proficient in producing a semi-cooling voice which had definitely sinister undertones and also produced magical doggerel rhymes.”

Cute party ig…but a murder happened at some point? I call it did right before the Snapdragon game!

“People who encountered the Grenzers there on patrol often disappeared, sometimes for days. Sometimes forever.”

Death Strip mention….

“How selfish people are, thought Mrs. Oliver. No consideration for others.”

Mrs. Oliver is so me in general

“Mama once said the most wonderful thing about being young is our ability to make things normal.”

She saw him again SHE SAW HIM AGAIN

“My schoolteacher taught us a new song that thanked our leaders for building a wall to keep the fascists out.”

I didn’t think this book was going to be that traumatizing but…oh! Someone is already dead!

“Berlin was a symphony of whispers.”
This is already so upsetting

What the freak

Fernando Vazquez’s family misheard the list of survivors and thought he lived…

Carlos Valeta :(