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This book is totally addictive...it feels like a matter of time before it becomes a Netflix show or movie. Definitely brain TV.

On Chapter 12...this is my audiobook at the moment.

In chapter five....just learned the FIVE THINGS strategy for cleaning a room...trash, dishes, laundry, things not in their place, things that have no place.

" 'It's not just that he's gone. It's that...well, we're not allowed to grieve for him, because of what happened. And if I say 'I miss my brother,' it makes me some kind of monster.' " (Jackson 33).

Almost done listening to Chapter 3....the section on forecasting.

"80% of missing people are found in the first twenty-four hours. 97% are found in the first week, and 99% of cases are resolved in the first year. That leaves just 1%. 1% of people who disappear are never found. And just .025% of all missing persons cases have a fatal outcome" (Jackson 10).

"The wealthy want the best. It started with new teeth -- most if not all surgeons are capable of creating false teeth from someone else's mouth. But I'm the only one capable of doing more" (Schwartz 299).

" 'Some women, ' Lord Almont said to his son, 'have yet to learn that we enjoy looking at them more than listening to them.' " (Schwartz 276).

"But you're the one treating me, not him, and for what it's worth, I trust you, Dr. Sinnett" (Schwartz 269).

" 'One book? One book? Now you're being absurd. What if I finish it? Or what if I find it impossibly dull, what the? What am I supposed to read if I either complete the book I brought or I otherwise discover it to be unreadable? Or what if it no longer holds my attention?" (Schwartz 216).

"Her future was coming for her even as she was riding away from it, pulled by four horses, as quickly as she could" (Schwartz 180).

"Education her in anatomy would be like teaching a pig to read before the slaughter" (Schwartz 126).

"Blood will stain your hands. You might find that blood may even stain your very souls" (Schwartz 104).

"In other words, don't just spread stress and anxiety so others will feel it, too -- propose specific actions to combat the problem at hand and enact change" (va Dernoot Lipsky 79).

"Resurrection men were supposed to disappear in sunlight, the vampires who fed the medical students of the city" (Schwartz 57).

"She would get a new name and a new home. She would have a new life. She would be a new person, a person whom sadness would be unable to find" (Schwartz 29).

"Stealing a body was against the law, but if they actually took any property from the grave, thave would make it a felony" (Schwartz 23).

"I hate sunscreen. It's sticky and it makes me smell like pina colada and--this is way too much" (Hazelwood 127).