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“There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing… his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane.”

The “make up is false advertising” crowd is literally medieval:
“In the twelfth century, at least two theologians…tackled the hard question of what, exactly, men should do if they engaged a sex worker in good faith, only to find out later that she had been wearing make up. Both enlightened minds agreed that in such a case, the clients who hired such women would have in fact been duped.”

A fun metaphor: “There was no point waltzing with old partners when her dance card was already full.”

“I look out the window, annoyed by the mere thought of Jakob. He’s wrong and I’m right.”
This narrator is insufferable for an adult reader

Teacher book club coming up