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How did I not notice before that Katsa is an autism spectrum icon!

Dear Anthony Horowitz: I promise, you do not need to describe the warm breasts pressing against his neck when she hugs him from behind. You can just say “her warm body”. The pervert crew has got you, we will imagine the breasts anyway. Enjoying this book but Horowitz is clearly a “what are Boob One and Boob Two up to” kind of guy. Two strikes so far, and I’m glad he’s showing such restraint.

“I knew Heaven every day, every time you looked at me. Maybe we don’t go there when we die, maybe we live there while we are alive.”

“Being a murderer with a sensational but incomplete and unorthodox memory, I cannot tell you, ladies and gentlemen, the exact day when I first knew with utter certainty that the red convertible was following us.”

Truly laugh-out-loud funny, this guy

“There was in the fiery phantasm a perfection which made my wild delight also perfect, just because the vision was out of reach, with no possibility of attainment… it may well be that the very attraction … lies not so much in the limpidity of the pure young forbidden fairy child beauty as in the security of a situation where infinite perfections fill the gap between the little given and the great promised.”

“I was naive as only a pervert can be.” I know I’m 75 years late to this observation but Nabokov is hilarious

This woman could write about literally anything, I wouldn't even care, I'm just obsessed with her prose

“I don’t want to fall in love… They’ll ask me to give them parts of me. I want to keep me for myself. I don’t want to give me away.” who’s crying!

“People will accept significant evil, if it doesn’t feel personal.”

Now this is the monsterfucker content we’ve been asking for

I swear to god Myrna Landers you need to stop saying psychotic when you mean psychopathic

No one has ever described it like this. God. This is nothing like Jawbone but it reminds me of Jawbone. What is more disgusting and consuming than falling in love with your best friend? I am all wound and you are the golden pus that fills me. I want to roll in this book.

This is probably a weird thing to say about a crime novel written in 2006 but oh my GOD this book lacks compassion

“He has not done enough, that is the trouble. He has not lived in all the ways available.”

Sorry no one told me this was PACIFIC RIM Sherlock Holmes, I’d have hurried

constant description of breasts? okay, quentin's a perv. taking every possible shot at a fat joke? okay, quentin's an asshole. using 'autistically' as an adverb not once but twice? jesus christ lev grossman. i've loved this book and world forever but you're killing me.

But someone impossible had given her something that shouldn’t exist.

This writing absolutely sears through you, oh my god, Shelley Parker-Chan is a phenom

This one is slow going—has to go back to the library. Hoping to circle back soon.

“It’s hard enough to live, she sometimes feels, without also having to think about it.”

“I wanted to overtake whatever existed in Jake and stretch myself out until I fit him perfectly. Even if it meant eradicating the Theron I’d been building for fifteen years. Even if it meant disappearing completely.”

“Preservation is irrational because it glorifies what cannot be.”

Hibernating this one for now

“Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.”

“Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human.”