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this is such a beautiful book i'm obsessed already

Some time later the same major is driving along when he sees the militiaman still with the penguin.
"What have you been doing?" he asks. "I said take him to the zoo."
"We've been to the zoo, Comrade Major," says the militiaman, "and the circus. And now we're going to the pictures."

1 page in and i'm already obsessed

okay maybe it's my fault for accidentally picking up heterosexual YA but tell me WHY a 16 year old girl is choosing a 300 year old man who looks young and hot instead of the childhood best friend she describes as beautiful every other sentences and loves to the point of defying the laws of magic and nature ?????

this is giving fantasy parks and rec in the best way

my cover's so much nicer than this one sorry i just had to flex

need every academic essay writer to read the language portion of this book

"The choice before us is not so much between victory and defeat as between revolution and apathy. If the thing we are fighting for is altogether destroyed, it will have been destroyed partly by our own act."

"From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books."

thyroid mention 🤠🥳

visceral book oh my god

"The memories swirl as I try to sort out what is true and what is false... This is hard because the effects of the concussion she gave me haven't completely subsided and my thoughts still have a tendency to jumble together. Also, the drugs they use to control my pain and mood sometimes make me see things."

she had her own highjacking by 13 :(

the scene where katniss comes home from the woods and the peacekeepers are waiting for her expecting her to be caught on the other side of the fence but she comes home to her mother and prim and haymitch and peeta are there too and it's so sweet and domestic and i don't know man it just gets me very emotional every time i read it

"We're all idiots. How's that?"
"Better," I say, and accept his kiss.

"I think of Haymitch, unmarried, no family, blotting out the world with drink. He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude - that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement."

ah man :(((

"Doubt it. Be a pain to replace you at this stage," says Haymitch.

little louella :(((

""Lots of. .." He can't think of the word for a while. "Spunk!" he says triumphantly. "More than you!" He releases me and starts for the front of the stage. "More than you!" he shouts, pointing directly into a camera. Is he addressing the audience or is he so drunk he might actually be taunting the Capitol?"

i want to inhale this entire book

i tried to pace myself i really did

i should NOT be reading this on my period oh my god

"she was what is called a fine-looking woman for her time of life" i ❤️ victorian milfs

I don't want it to end. I'd keep reading forever.

"Billions of years ago, a single, fuke, self-copying cell learned how to turn a barren ball of poison gas and volcanic slag into this peopled garden. And everything you hope, fear, and love became possible."

"There are a hundred thousand species of love, separately invented, each more ingenious than the last, and every one of them keeps making things."

i fear this book may ruin me

please. please ms moreno-garcia stop giving us little recaps of major character history like a "previously on...". please this isn't a tv show. i promise you we can remember that elvis joined a cult for a hot girl and maite steals things for a thrill. please.

the whale 3

i feel like i can't form an opinion on this story until i've finished it but i do think my writing style is very similar to ms schwab's

The exhausted are always trying, even when they don't want to, even when they are too exhausted to name trying as trying or to think about it like that. The trying of the exhausted is fuel for the machine that keeps running them over in the first place. Life doesn't have to be happy to be long.

Anger is not an illness. Illness is anger.

"But if you begin to accept your illness, or even to love it, you worry that you might want to keep it around. You think, when you feel bad, that you will never long for it, but in truth you do, since it provides such clear instruction for existing, brings with it the sharpened optics of life without futurity, the purity of the double vision of any life lived on the line."

"It is my right to reside in my own mind. It is my rigbt" I said. "It is my right to be unsociable and it is my right to be unpleasant to be around. Do you ever listen to yourself? This is crazy, that is crazy, everything is crazy to you. By whose measure? Well, it is my right to be crazy, as you love to say so much. I have no shame. I have felt many things in my life, but shame is not among them."