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Okay I think I know what the plot twist is gonna be. We shall see...

How does the octopus know what cucking is and can look at a family and tell if the kids aren't genetically related.... This octopus knows what the word cuckold is.

"I am a /big boy/."

Not sure how I am feeling about this book but it's cute.

I too have lived here all my life and only knew about Hanford when we started talking about it in class the other day. This book is our assigned reading.

"'The people here are as different from regular people as an octopus. I feel at home here,' Anna says, speaking for all of us, 'like I belong.'"

I love you octopuses.

Good god.

"Hey girl if you get with me you won't have IBS anymore" is basically what this guy just said oh my god.

I know this guy is horny but I'm on page 2 and in the middle of the page he literally goes "You sneeze, loudly, and I imagine how loud you are when you climax. 'God bless you!' I call out. You giggle and holler back, you horny girl, 'You too buddy.' I enjoyed the show (it was fun and camp) and I am. Interested to see where this goes.

"I cannot quite understand these fables, nor can I discern their use. I suspect they are born from the peculiar, specific anxiety that there is something fundamentally fragile about humanness. The dread that perhaps, if one takes time to peel back the skin of another, they will find an imposter, a machine, or stranger still, something like me."

"If you cut a host of mine and smear my blood, or if you magnify a thin sample of tissue under decent light, you will see, briefly, before decay takes hold, a spatter of perfectly spherical white flecks. Should you tell those tiny notes to smile, you will see their host's lips upturn in obedience. That is because, at the innumerable little cores of my being, I am something of a pleaser."

Why is everybody so mean to Whitby....

"Nothing monstrous existed here -- only beauty..."

The casual queer rep amongst the cosmic horrors delights me to no end.

I love you gay middle aged men who experienced the horrors. I also love you Jeff Vandermeer's prose.

Feeling enlightened.

I could hear a TV coming from somewhere. Whoever was speaking was furious at the liberals, the Democrats, the communists, and, for some reason, the Amish... "You want to talk to Phil?"
"Yes, please," I said, trying my best not to look liberal, Democrat, communist, or Amish.

TEETH!

I like how each day has a rose species description.

Quirky.

"Why do we fear so much in the other this thing we so little understand in ourselves?"

Moved into new room, ready to continue this now.
"tribeless, lawless, hearthless one" stop I'll cry.

"The great and terrible thing about humankind is simply this: we will always do what we are capable of."

I have been having such a hard time focusing on reading but I WILL finish this book.

I was right not to trust The Other..

The protag may be forgetting things and the House may have changed him but I trust him 1000x more than any other person he comes across in this book.

I don't trust The Other.

IH MY GODD.....
My brain was playing around with "man wouldn't it be crazy if this is how he got here" and. Well! Oh my god.