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I started this book on March 8 and am still working through it. This may be the first book I've ever read (or rather, listened to) so slowly yet remain as intrigued as the day I began it.

The most terrible part of this book is that I cannot discuss it with anyone without spoiling one of the most fantastic character reveals ever.

"Do you think it meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed now it feels not like going, but like going back. All my life the god of the Mountain has been wooing me. Oh, look up once at least before the end to wish me joy. I am going to my lover. Do you not see now--?"
"I only see that you never loved me,' said I. 'It may well be you are going to the gods. You are becoming cruel like them." (76)

"Do you know, Sister, I have come to feel more and more that the Fox hasn't the whole truth. Oh, he has much of it. It'd be dark as a dungeon within me but for his teaching. He calls the whole world a city. But what's a city built on? There's earth beneath. And outside the wall? Doesn't all the food come from there as well as all the dangers?" (70-71)

"One of the other girls tittered, and I think that was the first time I clearly understood that I am ugly." (11)

"Faces, faces, faces! What are you all gaping at? It'd make a man mad. Be off! Away! Out of my sight, fhs whole pack of you!" (16)