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“That wanting someone to be something they’re not won’t make it happen.”

No one told me this book would make me cry in the first 30 pages!!

A 2:00 pm call time for hair for a wedding?! No way that makes any sense.

I’m really tired of the “enemies to lovers” trope in this series.

I wish I owned a copy of this book because I would be highlighting so many quotes!

This book has taken a darker turn than I anticipated 😳

”They may get most of us, but they’ll never get all of us. They never do.”

”It was always the Midwest of Amerika.”

It always is…

Ope!!! I did NOT see that one coming!!!

“What unexpected, mysterious orifice on their body did they allow these men entry to that in turn made them do whatever unreasonable thing they wanted? … Had I been treating men too much like adults and not enough like little directionless lambs?”

“I marveled at how marriage ironically seemed to provide men of my generation with even more of an excuse to not grow up.”

I could deal with the change of POV with 2 or 3 characters, but now we’re adding too many into the mix, and I am not here for it.

“…part of a mother’s duty was to be her daughter’s first, best critic…”

Yeah this is sooo set in the 70s

A child DIED after he diagnosed her, called paramedics, then went against their decision to transport her to the hospital for safer care.

There were 2 more victims after this incident.

This makes me terrified to find a trusted doctor for my future children!!

They’re watching Project Runway, and I am in love with this love story.

“You’re like one of those AI robots who keep trying to autocorrect my words but never gets it right.”

This book is very realistic. I hope that Vi gets to discover who she truly is.

This book just keeps cycling through everyone’s perspectives about how they’re jealous of each other, how they have problems with each other’s behaviors, and how they all want the sexy new bachelor that moved in on the street… TWO OF THE THREE WOMEN HAVE HUSBANDS.

“I can’t understand all those people in Australia going on with their lives as if they weren’t about to die… Why keep going to work and throwing parties and following orders like that?

… [w]hen something too huge to understand happens. People become desperate for things to stay as normal as possible.”

I hate that this is still so true today 😫

Oooooo…. They just introduced the mystery of this island… I’m hooked!!!!

Finally made it to the witchcraft… it’s about to get good, but also probably incredibly more gross.

A Jensen Ackles reference?!?! This is now my favorite book of the whole series.

“Trust your struggle… If we’re struggling, we’re still in motion. Heading somewhere better.”

🩷

“The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things, not merely industrious, but to love industry, not merely learned, but to love knowledge, not merely pure, but to love purity, not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.” 🩵

“You’re the one who has to live your life. Don’t apologize to other people for the decisions you make for yourself.”

“Is it a hard Knox life? Does he tell a lot of Knox Knox jokes?” 🤣

I am literally on page 8, and I have laughed 5 different times. I’m hooked.

“We feel you’re doing yourself a disfavor by writing about race again…”

This is a biracial author writing about biracial characters… That’s like telling Nicholas Sparks to stop writing about white men.

“What happened to us, Sam?”
“Dean, what hasn’t happened to us?”

How was this line never used in the show!?!?