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loving this concept and the characters, so far would recommend on audio!! big fan of this narrator & their use of tone!

“you’re too busy trying to justify your happiness”

Listening on Libby to a 2006 theatrical recording by L.A. Theater Works and would 100000% recommend, even if you’re not used to reading/listening to plays!

BOXER

wait wait wait… candy mountain??

“into the ocean- the living ocean. the great blue arms of the only one she knew would never hate her.”

“as if desire didn’t live inside you at all, but instead it was you that lived inside your desire”

“when the front door was closed and freedom opened its throat”

“well thank goodness you make her sing! what is a life without music?”

“It’s strange how you can live all your life in a home defined by people love you, took care of you and shared ancestors with you, and yet did not entirely see you.”

“She’d never had an answer for the dull adults, the future had seemed too bleak to consider; but now it seemed to her, as she stood knee deep in waves, that there was no greater life achievement than this-“ guys… I’m screaming

“Fear had become so familiar that she could no longer see it, couldn’t sense it’s borders, couldn’t tell how deeply it had seeped into her conscious mind”

Michellllllle 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

“I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves – this ethical basis, I call the ideal of a pigsty.” (The World As I See It / Living Philosophies)

don’t mind me just sobbing in my office.

my heart aches

pain! longing! ugh! I do not think I will be putting this down until I finish it, Patricia Allison does a great job narrating

TW violence

I love a woman who barks.

“None of them could do it all, but they all could do something”

"I have learned that I can work with my enemies, because they might have a change of heart at any moment." Septima Clark

“Progress is usually born out of struggle, but struggle doesn’t always mean progress, does it? What do we need to add to struggle to create progress? The answer is hope.”

would highly recommend, especially on audio

Narrated by author! Already a fan.

these footnotes are giving me life!