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This book is disturbing

“All that you touch, you Change.

All that you Change, Changes you.

The only lasting truth is Change.

God is Change.”

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Octavia Butler may have the very first concept of religion I could ever get behind in this book

Short book just got to the secret being revealed

“I don’t even know how to pass on what I do have. I’ve got to learn to do that. It scares me how many things I’ve got to learn. How will I learn them? Is any of this real?” 26

“My god doesn’t love me or hate me or watch over me or know me at all, and I feel no love for or loyalty to my god. My god just is.” 25

Mary describing her 1st stress fracture:
“I’m used to running through pain. But this is piercing…in a way that doesn’t feel safe…God knows I don’t want to be injured like this…This is the very problem that is considered the demise of all talented female runners. But I KNEW this injury was serious. I wasn’t being dramatic. My freaking bone was broken and of course that hurts.” Boy have I been there!

Perspective is exactly what I needed to day… but I really want to give Mary Cain a hug

“I sometimes wonder, if I had killed myself, how much the running world would have pretended to care … I do think Nike would have loved me … despite my contract expiring (or, in this case, me expiring), I’d randomly pop up over the years in some remembrance of how they ‘almost saved me.’ Buy our shoes!”

This is the FIRST PAGE. She’s holding absolutely nothing back and I can’t wait to read it all.

So far this is making me reflect on how I’m so lucky I had overwhelmingly positive experiences with all my coaches and teammates during my time as a runner …

Ugh the best book ever

Harry Potter nostalgia 🥲❤️

I feel conflicted

The games have begun at last

The hunger games still haven’t started yet and I’m almost halfway through the book

“I hear someone say, ‘You’re nothing but a minor character in [Andy’s] story.’ But you know, that’s just not so. Andy was the part of me they could never lock up, the part of me that will rejoice when the gates finally open for me and I walk out in my cheap suit with my twenty dollars of mad-money in my pocket. That part of me will rejoice no matter how old and broken and scared the rest of me is.” 103

“I think Andy just froze in place for awhile. After all, you can’t lose if you don’t bet. What did he have to lose, you ask? His library, for one thing. The poison peace of institutional life, for another. Any future chance to grab his safe identity.” 102

“Geology had, in fact, become his chief hobby. I imagine it appealed to his patient, meticulous nature. A ten-thousand-year ice age here. A million years of mountain-building there. Plates of bedrock grinding against each other deep under the earth’s skin over the millennia. Pressure. Andy told me once that all geology is the study of pressure.
And time, of course.”
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“Time continued to pass — the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.” 69

“Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There’s good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into the progressive darkness toward terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions.” 64