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Sigh.

It’s nearly impossible not to highlight every line of this.

“I’m convinced that our compassion for a person is tied to our curiosity about them.”

I’m anxious

5 pages in and I want to give up. I don’t think fantasy is for me :/

My. Jaw. Is. On. The. Floor.

No one talk to me

Should I call into work to finish this yes or no

IM DOIN MY BEST

2% in and this might be the most beautiful writing I’ve ever read

“Dating girls might have been out of the question for me, but talking to them was not, because I could make them laugh. Human beings like to laugh. And lucky for me, pretty girls are human beings.”

No one tells a story like Trevor Noah

I’ve been wondering why David Sheff looks so much like Steve Carell 🤦‍♀️

We’re at a relatively calm point in the story and I fear I’m going to regret not shutting the book now and pretending everyone lives happily ever after

“…Sabbath practice suspends our subtle and not so subtle ways of dominating one another on a regular basis. Because our work is so often how we both rank and rule over one another, resting from it gives us a rest from our own pecking orders as well. When the Walmart cashier and the bank president are both lying on picnic blankets at the park, it is hard to tell them apart.”

This book was like putting all the right ingredients into a blender and waiting for it to magically turn into a smoothie

My least favorite book

“I hadn’t thought much about the saints; they seemed a Catholic thing, impossibly holy people. But I was learning to see them as witnesses to our limitations and God’s vast possibilities (as well as sense of humor), as Christian theology torn from the page and brought to life.”