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“You’re right that we have to see the good in people, at least in people who have power over us and who will be angry if we see them in another way.”

“I can hardly think of a more capable plant than the sage. It can steady a hand, it can counter a fever, it helps with a palsy, it is worth a try with a paralysis. Some say it can make you blond, but I have never witnessed such a thing. We should never forget to honor sage. Even when it fails us.”

they’re gonna kiss for real soon i can feel it

getting a bit better as it goes but really just so mid

i dont like the narrator. or literally any of the characters.

“And if Margaret wasn’t talking, she was singing, and to Lewis’s complete vexation, the only songs in her repertoire were snippets of three hits from the early 2000s (“Bootylicious, “Get Ur Freak On,” and “Hot in Herre”), as well as Avril Lavigne’s first two albums, which she knew by heart.”

“…the theater hums with presence as everyone in the audience and cast alike remembers that joy and grief are human birthrights, but mostly, being alive is everything in between.”

there are some chunks of prose that don’t really make sense to me or hit very hard, but then there’s just something really beautiful like this

“I don’t think that interests Electra. She is always looking for what others think or feel, what they fear or desire. Knowledge about your family is something she can easily have, and that is why she doesn’t want it.”