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“A future where someone always catches the strawberry you drop.”

“I wish I was eight, so that my hands would be big enough to spread the dough just right - not too thick and not too thin.”

I’ve already cried three times reading this book before bed.

Hot take: Tudors? Pass.

“Geese in the cornstalks!”

“The differences between a bowerbird and me are fewer than you might expect.”

“This book belongs to: _________, who was born to be awesome.”

“Then Mary would stand on her old, old legs, clear her old, old throat, and read from her Bible or her schoolbook in a voice that was clear and strong.”

It took me a week and a half to get past the first eight pages, but now I'm hooked.

"Don't lose heart," said Hobie (who, like me, was overly sensitive to the souls of rooms and objects, the emanations left by time).

I need to track my progress, or I'm never going to finish this beast.